Weaver v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The plaintiffs further allege that if it be construed that the defendant has a good and valid permit to construct said filling station, and that plaintiffs are barred from appealing the action of the said building inspector ... that plaintiffs will be deprived of their property without due process of law.... “[Defendants allege that said zoning ordinance was duly passed and approved in the manner required by law, after due notice to property owners, and that the plaintiffs had the right at all times to make application to the legislative body ... to amend the said ordinance, and could ... have submitted ... all the questions and objections now sought to be presented ... that plaintiffs under said ordinance have no right to an appeal to the action of the building inspector in granting the permit herein, and that if the plaintiffs had any such right to appeal, that such right was lost in that the appeal was not taken within the time prescribed. “The plaintiffs’ response is in substance that the building permit issued to the defendant ... was void for want of notice to the plaintiffs____ “The evidence is that no notice ... was given either of the plaintiffs, and that the plaintiffs had no knowledge of same until after the expiration of more than ten days [the appeal period]. The zoning ordinance ... does not provide for such notice.... “The record does not disclose that under the ordinance of Tulsa that notice to other parties is required generally in obtaining municipal permit”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Evans v. Burruss