Cassidy v. Triebel’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2009
20 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 Almon v. American Carloading Corp. · Harmon v. City of Peoria · People ex rel. Conlon v. Mount · Zadworny v. City of Chicago · Debartolo v. Village of Oak Park
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * plaintiffs agreed to obtain a clarification of the ordinance in the nature of a variance so that it would expressly permit the use of said property as a residence by young lady students, who were members of the local chapter of Gamma Phi Beta Corporation, that after the sorority obtains title to said premises it will be used to provide a residence for approximately ten young lady students, supervised by a House Mother, who will have their meals prepared and served there and said dwelling will be the home of said students during the school year and said students will reside therein as a single housekeeping unit of one family. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any number of individuals living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.