Thomson v. Tafel’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2009
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.
Relationships
Relies on State of Washington Seattle Title Trust Co v. Roberge · Selligman v. Von Allmen Bros., Inc. · Polk v. Axton · Louisville & Jefferson County Planning & Zoning Commission v. Ogden · Women's Kansas City St. Andrew Soc. v. Kansas City
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the order of the Board was not actually the granting of a variance, but was a granting of the use of property permissible under the zoning ordinance but subject to approval by the Board of Adjustment and Appeals. The order did not change any provision of the zoning ordinance, but merely applied the existing law as the Board was authorized to do * * *.””
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.