In Re Vitale’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably In Re Denio (1992), Appeal of Weeks (1998)
52 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · Alleghany Corporation v. Breswick & Co Baker Weeks & Co · In Re Agency of Administration, Etc. · The Lorain Journal Company v. Federal Communications Commission, Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Company, Intervenor. W.W.I.Z., Inc., and Sanford A. Schafitz v. Federal Communications Commission, Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Company, Intervenor
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary rule when reviewing [the] construction of an administrative rule is to give language its plain, ordinary meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(A) A project is a “development” if it satisfies any of the following definitions: (2) The construction of the improvements for any commercial or industrial purpose, including commercial dwellings, which is located on a tract or tracts of land of more than one acre owned or controlled by a person .... In determining the amount of land, the area of the entire tract or tracts of involved land owned or controlled by a person will be used. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Eastland, Inc.“in construing land use regulations any uncertainty must be decided in favor of the property owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.