Curry v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Littlefield v. City of Afton (1986), Merriam Park Community Council, Inc. v. McDonough (1973)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 State Ex Rel. Spurck v. Civil Service Board · State Ex Rel. Spurck v. Civil Service Board · State Ex Rel. Foster v. City of Minneapolis · State Ex Rel. Stubben v. Board of County Commissioners · STATE EX REL. GOPHER SALES CO. v. City of Austin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has repeatedly held, as have other courts, that mandamus will not lie to control the exercise of discretion of municipal and other governmental bodies or boards, having the duty of making decisions involving judgment and discretion but that such remedy will lie in those cases, among others, where such boards or bodies have acted arbitrarily, capriciously, or unreasonably.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the opportunity for amelioration of unnecessary hardships resulting from the rigid enforcement of a broad zoning ordinance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Stadsvold“avoid[ing] the acknowledged evils of `spot zoning.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Stadsvold
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.