Marta v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2009
9 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 Eubank v. City of Richmond · Thomas Cusack Company v. City of Chicago · Chartiers Valley Joint Schools v. Allegheny County Board of School Directors · State Ex Rel. Saveland Park Holding Corp. v. Wieland · Norate Corp. v. Zoning Board of Adjustment
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 501. Use Regulations. No building shall be erected, altered or used [in a Residential ‘RD’ District] except for the following uses: * * * # “(d) Multiple dwelling, provided the minimum open area on the lot is equal to one thousand six hundred (1600) square feet per family, when authorized by the Board of Adjustment after public hearing. “When the immediate neighborhood is more than 50% developed, approval of 75% of the residents within a radius of one-eighth mile of the land in question must be secured.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sullivan v. Marta“immediate neighborhood,” which, we noted, was possibly a fatal delegation of legislative power, because there may be a reasonable difference of opinion on the subject. Id. 14 . Id. 15 . The University of Delaware is chartered by the General Assembly and draws its authority from 14 Del. C. § 5101 et seq. Section 5106 entrusts the Board of Trustees of the University with the”
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.