Foster v. Geller’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Board of Supervisors v. BOARD OF ZONING (2006), TRUSTEES OF CHRIST v. Bd. of Zoning Appeals (2007)
2 federal appellate · 54 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 Commonwealth v. County Board of Arlington County · Segaloff v. City of Newport News · Ames v. Town of Painter · Masterson v. Board of Zoning Appeals · Masterson v. VIRGINIA BEACH BD. OF ZON. APP.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he decision of a board of zoning appeals `is presumed to be correct and can be reversed or modified only if the trial court determines that the BZA applied erroneous principles of law or was plainly wrong and in violation of the purposes and intent of the zoning ordinance' and `the party challenging the BZA's decision has the burden of proof on these issues.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“either applied `erroneous principles of law' or that its decision was `plainly wrong and in violation of the purpose and intent of the zoning ordinance.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have authorized the use of equitable considerations only when the issue is whether to grant a special use permit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.