Orange County v. Heath’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2012
12 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 Zopfi v. City of Wilmington · Helms v. City of Charlotte · City of Raleigh v. Morand · In Re Appeal of Parker · Freeland v. Orange County
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The manifest intention of the General Assembly was that a public hearing be conducted at which thosé who opposed and those who favored adoption of the ordinance would have a fair opportunity to present their respective views. The requirement that such a public hearing be conducted is mandatory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A zoning ordinance is a legislative determination as to what restrictions should be placed on the use of land.”
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.