Yancey v. Heafner’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Westminster Homes, Inc. v. Town of Cary Zoning Board of Adjustment (2001), Capricorn Equity Corp. v. Town of Chapel Hill Board of Adjustment (1993)
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 In Re Pine Hill Cemeteries, Inc. · Jarrell v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT FOR CITY OF HIGH POINT · County of Durham v. Addison · In Re the Appeal of Hasting · 53 Wash. 2d 55 - State Ex Rel. Tacoma School District No. 10 v. Stojack
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[z]oning ordinances should be given a fair and reasonable construction in light of ... the general structure of the Ordinance as a whole[,]”
6 later decisions 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.