Ridgewood Development Co. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Wermager v. Cormorant Township Board (1983), Interstate Power Co. v. Nobles County Board of Commissioners (2000)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Bottone v. United States · United States v. Georgia-Pacific Co. · Pearsall v. Great Northern Railway Co. · United States v. Lazy FC Ranch · Pearsall v. Great Northern Ry Co
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A local government exercising its zoning powers will be estopped when a property owner, (1) relying in good faith (2) upon some act or omission of the government, (3) has made such a substantial change in position or incurred such extensive obligations and expenses that it would be highly inequitable and unjust to destroy the rights which he ostensibly had acquired.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“a right becomes vested when it has “arisen upon a contract, or transaction in the nature of a contract, authorized by statute and liabilities under that right have been so far determined that nothing remains to be done by the party asserting it * * Yaeger v. Delano Granite Works, 250 Minn. 303, 307 , 84 N.W.2d 363, 366 (1957). Nevertheless, in zoning cases decided under this theory, we have held that the mere possession of a building permit, the incurring of some expense and the assumption of obligations preliminary to construction, such as excavation, create no vested right. Kiges v. City of St. Paul, 240 Minn. 522, 538 , 62 N.W.2d 363, 373 (1953). Neither do expenditures associated with the acquisition of the property, the removal of trees, the grading of the land or excavation. Hawkinson v. County of Itasca, 304 Minn. 367, 374-77 , 231 N.W.2d 279, 283-84 (1975).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]s a general rule, for equitable estoppel to lie, the plaintiff must demonstrate that the defendant, through his language or conduct, induced the plaintiff to rely, in good faith, on this language or conduct to his injury, detriment or prejudice.”
4 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.