Purdy v. MOISE’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Gurganious v. City of Beaufort (1995), Original Blue Ribbon Taxi Corp. v. South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (2008)
32 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 Landay v. Board of Zoning Appeals · Matter of Monument Garage Corp. v. Levy · Pinkerton v. Woodward · Fay v. Pacific Improvement Co. · Coakley v. Tidewater Construction Corp.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]rdinances in derogation of natural rights of persons over their property are to be strictly construed as they are in derogation of the common law right to use private property so as to realize its highest utility and should not be impliedly extended to cases not clearly within their scope and purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“construction of its own ordinance, the enforcement of which it is charged with, should be given some consideration and not overruled without cogent reason therefor”
2 later decisions 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.