Knutson v. State Ex Rel. Seberger’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably El Dorado at Santa Fe, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners (1976), Equicor Development, Inc. v. Westfield-Washington Township Plan Commission (2001)
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 Flournoy v. City of Jeffersonville · City of Indianapolis, Etc. v. Wynn · State Ex Rel. Smitherman v. Davis, Etc. · Board of Commissioners v. State ex rel. Brown · Schneck v. City of Jeffersonville
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Cities and towns have been granted broad authority by the state which created them to control the development of areas in and adjacent to them. However, public policy requires that this authority be exercised in a standardized and clearly defined manner so as to enable both the landowner and the municipality to act with assurance and authority regarding the development of such areas. It is for this reason that although public policy requires municipal control of such development, nevertheless the authority of a town to deny a landowner the right to develop his property by refusing to approve the plat of such development is by statute made to rest upon specific standards of a statute or implementing ordinance. Thereafter the approval or disapproval of the plat on the basis of the controlling standards is a ministerial act." (Footnotes omitted.) ( 239 Ind., at 659 , 157 N.E.2d, at 471 .)”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[this rule, we believe, is consistent with the general rule of law that ordinances or statutes which are substantive in their effect are not retroactive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a municipal council may not, by the enactment of an emergency ordinance, give retroactive effect to a pending zoning ordinance thus depriving a property owner of his right to a building permit in accordance with a zoning ordinance in effect at the time of the application of such permit.”
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.