164 W. Va. 665 - Singer v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2008
13 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 Sonn v. Planning Commission · Frank Ansuini, Inc. v. City of Cranston · 4 Mass. App. Ct. 306 - Canter v. Planning Board of Westborough · 37 Colo. App. 39 - Shoptaugh v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS OF EL PASO CTY. · 136 W. Va. 120 - State Ex Rel. Ammerman v. City of Philippi
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly, there is a distinction between regulating the manner in which a subdivision can be constructed and regulating where land can be devoted to subdivision use. The former is the province of a planning commission, while the latter is exclusively the province of a zoning commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the comprehensive plan is to be used by the Planning Commission to aid them in drawing up their subdivision ordinances. The comprehensive plan was never intended to replace definite, specific guidelines; instead it was to lay the groundwork for the future enactment of zoning laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“purpose of zoning is to provide an overall comprehensive plan for land use, while subdivision regulations govern the planning of new streets, standards for plotting new neighborhoods, and the protection of the community from financial loss due to poor development.”
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.