Davis v. Sails’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably AMERICAN PETROLEUM EQUIP. AND CONSTRUCTION, INC. v. Fancher (1997), 511 So. 2d 1009 - Norwood-Norland Homeowners v. DADE CTY. (1987)
37 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · 71 So. 2d 148 - City of Miami Beach v. Lachman · City of Miami Beach v. Wiesen · City of Palmetto v. Katsch · Malone v. City of Quincy
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[I]f the application of a zoning classification to a specific parcel of property is reasonably subject to disagreement, that is, if its application is fairly debatable, then the application of the ordinance by the zoning authority should not be disturbed by the courts.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is clearly the duty of the court to determine the validity of zoning ordinances as applied to a specific parcel of property. . . ." (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exceeds the bounds of necessity for the public welfare,”
2 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.