State v. Laurel Crest Academy’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2002
10 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 Yale University v. Town of New Haven · Western Theological Seminary v. City of Evanston · Langbein v. Board of Zoning Appeals · American Asylum at Hartford v. President of the Phoenix Bank · State v. Gager
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]n ordinance which provides for the construction of a school [or college] in a residence zone would encompass the right to erect;[or convert] buildings, equipment and the plant which ordinarily form a part of the ... school [or college].” State v. Laurel Crest Academy, 2 Conn. Cir. 294, 198 A. 2d 229, 232 (Conn. Cir. Ct. 1963).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o interpret `dormitory' in zoning matters as not being an integral part of a college or school and as not having an educational purpose would be contrary to the ruling of the Court in [Yale University v. New Haven]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was to house students and/or members of [the] faculty and administration staff, . . . such use was one which was incident to and in direct furtherance of an expanded program in higher education. . .”
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.