Lambert v. Seabold’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1980
12 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 Woodlawn Area Citizens Ass'n v. Board of County Commissioners · Whittle v. Board of Zoning Appeals · QUEEN COMMISSIONERS OF QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY v. Miles · Board of County Commissioners v. Edmonds · Kay Construction Co. v. County Council for Montgomery County
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘the original zoning on the 1960 map was in error because of the complete failure of the Council to consider existing uses at that time, and its complete failure to follow the logical recommendation of the Planning Board which did not only recognize existing uses of the subject property, but was completely in accord with reasonable uses in the immediate vicinity which the map, as adopted, was certainly not. * * ” Id. at 564 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Surkovich v. Doub““This rule seems to rest not strictly on the doctrine of res judicata, but upon the proposition that it would be arbitrary for the board to arrive at opposite conclusions on substantially the same set of facts and the same law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Lagrew
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.