Evans v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably 11 Wis. 2d 449 - Sohns v. Jensen (1960), Moore v. Pettus (1954)
31 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 Fitzgerald v. Merard Holding Co. · Marcus v. Village of Mamaroneck · Ex Parte Hernreich v. Quinn · Taylor v. Schlemmer · Holzbauer v. Ritter
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] private individual has the right to maintain an action to compel the owner of a building to make it conform to the zoning regulations of the municipality, and to restrain the [property] owner from using it for nonconforming purposes when the nonconforming use will result in a special damage to the plaintiff.”
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.