Dexter v. Town Board’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2017
16 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 Rodgers v. Village of Tarrytown · Baylis v. CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE · Vlahos Realty Co. v. Little Boar's Head District · MAYOR & CC OF BALTIMORE v. Poe
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.
“While it is proper for a zoning board to impose appropriate conditions and safeguards in conjunction with ... a grant of a variance or special permit, such conditions and safeguards must be reasonable and relate only to the real estate involved without regard to the person who owns or occupies it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall inure to the benefit of Wegman Enterprises, Inc., only,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not relate to the use of the property and the zoning thereof.”
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.