19 Mass. App. Ct. 399 - Hogan v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2013
17 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 Skipjack Cove Marina, Inc. v. County Commissioners · 12 Mass. App. Ct. 802 - Arrigo v. Planning Board of Franklin · 18 Mass. App. Ct. 471 - Vokes v. Avery W. Lovell, Inc. · 11 Mass. App. Ct. 230 - Neuhaus v. Building Inspector of Marlborough · 12 Mass. App. Ct. 351 - McDonald's Corp. v. Town of Seekonk
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The notion that variances more than one year old, and remaining unexercised by the effective date of the new statute, are destroyed by a retroactive application of § 10, would appear quite drastic, and hardly matches the text of that provision. A milder contention might take the form that § 10 should extend to cancel variances, granted well before the effective date of the new statute, which have not been exercised within a year after that date. Even that proposition might put a great and insupportable strain on the statutory language. [1]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the rights authorized by a variance are not exercised within one year of the date of grant of such variance they shall lapse, and may be reestablished only after notice and a new hearing pursuant to this section.”
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.