Kinney v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably A-S-P Associates v. City of Raleigh (1979), City of Raleigh v. Fisher (1950)
33 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 · Lee v. . Board of Adjustment · Forbes v. Hubbard · In Re Appeal of Parker · City of Elizabeth v. Aydlett
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provision exempting nonconforming structures and uses existing at the enactment of the ordinance has a sound basis and is not unreasonable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals or the general welfare of the community”
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.