Scull v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Montgomery County v. Woodward & Lothrop, Inc. (1977), Mayor and Council of Rockville v. Rylyns Enterprises, Inc. (2002)
37 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 Offutt v. Board of Zoning Appeals · Bosley v. Hospital for Consumptives of Maryland · Montgomery County Council v. Scrimgeour · Kay Construction Co. v. County Council for Montgomery County · Ark Readi-Mix Concrete Corp. v. Smith
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On September 21, 1966, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (Planning Commission) adopted a Master Plan for Kemp Mill-Four Comers and [V]icinity of Montgomery County. The area covered by the plan consisted of 4,263 acres in southeastern Montgomery County, of which approximately eighty-nine per cent was developed at the time of the adoption. The Planning Commission filed zoning application No. E-955, a sectional map amendment, with the District Council on December 2, 1966, for the purpose of rezoning all of the land within the planning area to conform with the Master Plan’s recommended classifications. This application proposed to rezone approximately 128 acres, including the appellees’ 3.5 acres which is located at the southwesterly side of University Boulevard near the intersection of Areola Avenue in Wheaton, Maryland, from C-l (Local Commercial) to the R-60 (One-Family, Detached Residential) zone. Appellee, Randolph Hills, Inc., is the owner of the subject property, and appellee Tracy C. Coleman, is the contract purchaser.” 251 Md. at 8. “We hold that resolution No. 6-380 of the Montgomery County Council granting the rezoning requested in zoning application No. E-955 was comprehensive in nature. The purpose of No. E-955, a sectional map amendment, was to rezone all of the land within the planning area boundaries to conform with the recommendations of the Kemp Mill-Four Corners Master Plan. While appellees are correct in saying that only 128.21 acres ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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