Clouser v. David’s Empirical Analysis
309 F.2d 233 · 1962
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Brawner Building, Inc. v. R. Roderick Shehyn, Walter E. Washington, Commissioner, District of Columbia (1971), Palmer v. Board of Zoning Adjustment (1972)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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.
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.
“"Hardship, if any, has not resulted from the location, situation, or condition of the property, but solely from appellee's appropriation of it for commercial purposes without first having obtained the necessary change in zoning. To countenance such a procedure and standard for the procurement of a variance is to encourage the destruction of planned zoning in the District of Columbia." [Clouser v. David, 114 U.S.App.D.C. 12, 13 , 309 F.2d 233, 234 (1962); emphasis added.] [5]”
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.