Brous v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 1980 · most notably Vernon Park Realty, Inc. v. City of Mount Vernon (1954), Golden v. Planning Board of Ramapo (1972)
48 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Dowsey v. Village of Kensington · Matter of Wulfsohn v. Burden · Ayres v. City Council of Los Angeles · Rodgers v. Village of Tarrytown · Mansfield & Swett, Inc. v. Town of West Orange
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“street * * * duly placed on the official map”
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.