Dougherty County v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Emory University v. Levitas (1991), Stendahl v. Cobb County (2008)
42 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 Gradous v. Board of Commissioners · City of Atlanta v. Wansley Moving & Storage Co. · Village Centers, Inc. v. DeKalb County · Olley Valley Estates, Inc. v. Fussell · City of Roswell v. HEAVY MACHINES COMPANY
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether denominated as special approval, special exception, special permit or conditional use, this zoning technique “was developed as a means of providing for types of land use which are necessary and desirable, but which are potentially incompatible with uses usually allowed in the particular district.” [Cit.] All “involve a special use authorized by the existing zoning ordinance..., but the ordinance provides that such uses shall be allowed only upon the condition that it be approved by the appropriate governmental body.” [Cit.] This zoning device allows the local governing body to anticipate proposed future land uses potentially in conflict with existing permitted uses, and affords the flexibility of permitting the proposed use upon compliance with conditions set out in the ordinance, or in the discretion of the local governing body. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he superior court determines the law and facts from matters presented to it with no deference to decisions made below on either fact or law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“establish the unconstitutionality of the ordinance by clear and convincing evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moon v. Cobb County
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.