Powers v. Common Council’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Town of Westport v. City of Norwalk (1974), Helbig v. Zoning Commission of Noank Fire District (1981)
58 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 Summ v. Zoning Commission · Fox v. Zoning Board of Appeals · Huhta v. Zoning Board of Appeals · Emerick v. Monaco & Sons Motor Sales, Inc. · Eastern Oil Refining Co. v. Court of Burgesses of Wallingford
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough [ § 8-2 ] provides that the public health, safety, convenience and property values may be considered in making a determination on a special permit, this is to be done in conjunction with, and not as an alternative to, the standards which the zoning regulations themselves must provide”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“upon the recommendation of the City Planning Commission, may be designated by the Common Council, after a public hearing, as a multiple housing project area, to which the regulations provided in this ordinance for the district in which it is located shall continue to apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“area designation process is in effect a procedure for the granting of a special permit [the court held that] . . . [w]hen the council was considering the application for an area designation, it was acting administratively.”
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.