Wright v. McCubbin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2003
19 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 Bryniarski v. Montgomery County Board of Appeals · Town of Somerset v. Montgomery County Board of Appeals · DuBay v. Crane · Hardesty v. Dunphy · Chapman v. Montgomery County Council
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Even if there had been some significant evidence of substantial change in the character of the neighborhood it is established that change which would support a rezoning does not compel it absent probative evidence that no reasonable use can be made of the property in its current zoning classification. Furnace Branch Land Co. v. Board of County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County, 232 Md. 536 ; Skipjack Cove Marina v. County Commissioners, 252 Md. 440, 453 ; Cabin John Limited Partnership v. Montgomery County Council, supra. [ 259 Md. 661 , 271 A.2d 174 ]."”
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.