Davidson County v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Estrin v. Moss (1968), Fallin v. Knox County Board of Commissioners (1983)
36 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 · Radice v. People of New York · Simon v. Town of Needham · 2 Smith & H. 70 - Spencer-Sturla Co. v. City of Memphis · Hunter v. Conner
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“real tendency to carry into effect the purposes designed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . the area zoned is suitable for residential development and the natural future growth and development of the suburban district makes that development entirely probable. We find the effect of the resolution is for the general welfare and we cannot find that the resolution assailed is arbitrary or unconstitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If that case intended to hold that the city cannot forbid the operation of quarries, operated as quarries are ordinarily operated, where people live or are accustomed to move, then it is out of touch with latter-day extensions of police power.”
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.