Masters v. Pruce’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably 354 So. 2d 808 - Peddycoart v. City of Birmingham (1978), Board of Trustees of Employees' Retirement System v. Talley (1973)
26 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 City of Birmingham v. Southern Express Co. · Cleaver v. Board of Adjustment · State Ex Rel. Ward v. Henry · Dearborn v. Johnson · 7 Cal. 2d 384 - Gilgert v. Stockton Port District
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]n order for . . . a law based on a population standard which applies to only one political subdivision to be upheld as a general law, the difference in population must be substantial, the classification must be made in good faith by the legislature, and the classification must be reasonably related to the purpose sought to be achieved by the act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A general law within the meaning of this article is a law which applies to the whole state; a local law is a law which applies to any political subdivision or subdivision of the state less than the whole”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Therefore, it is reasonable that the governing bodies in counties with over 400,000 population have such zoning powers, whereas other county governing bodies in the state may not.”
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.