Green v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Hammond v. Lancaster (1950), Inlet Associates v. Assateague House Condominium Ass'n (1988)
56 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 Colati v. Jirout · Baltimore Retail Liquor Package Stores Ass'n v. Board of License Commissioners · Beyer v. Mayor of Baltimore · Sun Cab Co. v. Cloud · Five Oaks Corp. v. Gathmann
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellants contend that the enlargement of this use to include professional baseball games for a considerable period of a year is not within the exemption, but we cannot so find____ We have never held that the more frequent use of a property for a purpose which does not conform to the ordinary restrictions of the neighborhood is an extension of an infrequent use of the same building for a similar purpose____””
3 later decisions 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.