Feldman v. Hesch’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
June 1969
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Town of Lexington v. Bean · Keenly v. McCarty
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The policy and spirit of the zoning law of this state ordains the gradual elimination of nonconforming uses, and the general intent of ordinances dealing with the subject matter is to hold nonconforming uses within strict limits; and any change effected, as subsection 2 of KRS 100.355 requires, must be ‘to another nonconforming use of the same or more restricted classification.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hofgesang v. McMakin
How this case has been treated — in progress
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