Talbot County v. Skipper’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Fogle v. H & G Restaurant, Inc. (1995), Allied Vending, Inc. v. City of Bowie (1993)
3 district · 62 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 County Council v. Investors Funding Corp. · Ad + Soil, Inc. v. County Commissioners · Mayor of Baltimore v. Sitnick · Rossberg v. State · County Council v. Montgomery Ass'n
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A local ordinance is pre-empted by conflict when it prohibits an activity which is intended to be permitted by state law, or permits an activity which is intended to be prohibited by state law.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“has acted with such force that an intent by the State to occupy the entire field”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“1) whether local laws existed prior to the enactment of the state laws governing the same subject matter, 2) whether the state laws provide for pervasive administrative regulation, 3) whether the local ordinance regulates an area in which some local control has traditionally been allowed, 4) whether the state law expressly provides concurrent legislative authority to local jurisdictions or requires compliance with local ordinances, 5) whether a state agency responsible for administering and enforcing the state law has recognized local authority to act in the field, 6) whether the particular aspect of the field sought to be regulated by the local government has been addressed by the state legislation, and 7) whether a two-tiered regulatory process existing if local laws were not preempted would engender chaos and confusion.”
6 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.