In Re Markham’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Blades v. City of Raleigh (1972), A-S-P Associates v. City of Raleigh (1979)
43 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 Lee v. . Board of Adjustment · Pue v. . Hood, Comr. of Banks · Helms v. City of Charlotte · Belk's Department Store, Inc. v. . Guilford County · In Re Appeal of O'Neal
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals or the general welfare of the community, the legislative body of cities and incorporated towns is hereby empowered to regulate and restrict the height, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the location and use of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residence or other purposes...." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Joyner“[t]he Planning and Zoning Commission ... ha[s] no legislative, judicial or quasi-judicial power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the City Council in the exercise of its purely legislative function.”
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.