Pierro v. Baxendale’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Manalapan Realty v. Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan (1995), Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Township of Mount Laurel (1975)
76 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 · Berman v. Parker · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. v. Missouri · Schmidt v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, CITY OF NEWARK
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'presumptively valid and ... [is] not to be nullified except upon an affirmative showing that the action taken ... was unreasonable, arbitrary or capricious.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We are satisfied that at long last conscientious municipal officials have been sufficiently empowered to adopt reasonable zoning measures designed towards preserving the wholesome and attractive characteristics of their communities and the values of taxpayers’ properties.” Pierro v. Baxendale, 20 N. J. 17, 118 A. 2d 401, 408 (1955). See also West Hartford Methodist Church v. Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of West Hartford, 143 Conn. 263 , 121 A. 2d 640, 643 (1956) ; Opinion of the Justices, 333 Mass. 773 , 128 N.E. 2d 557 (1955) ; Sullivan v. Anglo-American Investment Trust, Inc., 89 N. H. 112, 193 Atl. 225, 227 (1937) ; Fischer v. Bedminster Township, 11 N. J. 194, 93 A. 2d 378 (1952). Cf. Kerr’s Appeal, 294 Pa. 246, 250 , 144 Atl. 81 (1928) (aesthetic values may be considered in connection with the question of general welfare).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If and when conditions change, alterations in zoning restrictions and pertinent legislative and judicial attitudes need not be long delayed.”
2 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.