GRATTON v. CONTE’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Archbishop O'Hara's Appeal (1957), Cleaver v. Board of Adjustment (1964)
58 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 Ward's Appeal · Kerr's Appeal · Hollearn v. Silverman
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [T]he Commission is, as far as zoning is concerned, merely a recommendatory body; final decision rests in the elective legislative body of the city government. . . . [T]he Act of 1927 provided that in case of disapproval by that body of a proposed change In zoning regulations or boundaries a vote of three-fourths of all the members of the Council should be required to pass the ordinance; once such a vote is obtained, however, the requirements of the law are fulfilled. The ultimate power is vested in the Council, and its good faith in acting for the public welfare cannot be questioned by the judicial branch of government.” 78 A. 2d at 384.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While a piecemeal method of altering zoning classification is frequently undesirable practice it may be the only way of protecting rights which must be recognized, and, while all zoning regulations must be in accord with the general comprehensive plan, they should be made, as the statute provides, with a view to encouraging the most appropriate use of the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“zoning classifications are largely within the judgment of the legislative body and the exercise of that judgment will not be interfered with by the courts except in cases where it is obvious that the classification'has no substantial relationship to public health, safety, morals or general welfare.”
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.