Colati v. Jirout’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Heath v. M. C.C. of Baltimore (1946), Grant v. Mayor of Baltimore (1957)
76 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · State ex rel. Civello v. City of New Orleans · City of Aurora v. Burns · Jack Lewis, Inc. v. Mayor of Baltimore · County Commissioners v. Ward
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even when a non-conforming building has been destroyed by act of God, the owner should not be allowed to rebuild as a matter of right without authority from statute or ordinance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.