Turner v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Schultz v. Pritts (1981), Towson University v. Conte (2004)
2 district · 101 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 Montgomery County v. Merlands Club, Inc. · Rockville Fuel & Feed Co. v. Board of Appeals · Marcus v. Montgomery County Council · Prince George's County v. Meininger · Baker v. Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In [Merlands Club], we went to some pains to stress that the special exception is a valid zoning mechanism that delegates to an administrative board a limited authority to permit enumerated uses which the legislative body has determined can, prima facie, properly be allowed in a specified use district, absent any fact or circumstance in a particular case which would change this presumptive finding. We said: ‘The duties given to the Board are to judge whether the neighboring properties and the general neighborhood would be adversely affected, and whether the use, in the particular case, is in harmony with the general purpose and intent of the zoning plan.’ In accord is [Oursler ].” (Emphasis added.)”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * *[I]f ‘it takes ten gossamers to make a scintilla, then the appellees’ evidence ... falls well short of five gossamers.’ Judge McWil-liams may well have been speaking of the case now before us as we are unable to find ‘five gossamers’ of evidence pertaining to the assault and battery.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[The Board] made no findings of fact worthy of the name and we think citizens are entitled to something more than a boiler-type resolution.””
2 later decisions 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.