Cogdell v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Coastal Ready-Mix Concrete Co. v. Board of Commissioners (1980), Westminster Homes, Inc. v. Town of Cary Zoning Board of Adjustment (2001)
33 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 Cox v. Hennis Freight Lines · Victory Cab Co. v. City of Charlotte · In Re Appeal of O'Neal · Upchurch v. Hudson Funeral Home, Inc. · Currin v. Williams
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rules applicable to the construction of statutes are equally applicable to the construction of municipal ordinances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The basic rule is to ascertain and effectuate the intention of the municipal legislative body.”
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.