Symonds v. Bucklin’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
July 1976
most recently cited
3 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Berman v. Parker · United States v. Causby · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Zoning cannot be used as a substitute for eminent domain proceedings to defeat the payment of just compensation by depressing [property] values and so reducing the amount of damages to be paid when private property is to be taken for public use.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lackman v. Hall
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.