Marren v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 1993 · most notably Blades v. City of Raleigh (1972), Taylor v. City of Raleigh (1976)
35 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 City of Raleigh v. Fisher · Leahy v. Inspector of Buildings · Eggebeen v. Sonnenburg · State Ex Rel. Holcombe v. City of Lake Charles · Kinney v. Sutton
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.
““For any or all said purposes it may divide the municipality into districts of such number, shape and area as may be deemed1 best suited to carry out the purposes of this article; and within such districts it may regulate and restrict the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair or use of buildings, structures or land. All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of building throughout each district, but the regulations in one district may differ from those in other districts.””
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.