State v. Danner’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2002
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Variance. Experience has established that often after an over-all zoning ordinance has been enacted, it develops that its application would result in practical difficulties and unnecessary hardships. To avoid this, such ordinances often provide for exceptions or departures from the general provision, when such prescribed standards for a variance have been established before the proper board or commission. This is often referred to as”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler v. Lautz“Zoning, generally. Lawful zoning is the exercise of the police power and must be based upon and have substantial relation to either public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, or general welfare, and must not be unreasonably discriminatory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler v. Lautz
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.