Davis Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably Hanna v. Board of Adjustment (1962), Silver v. Zoning Board of Adjustment (1969)
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 Haller Baking Company's Appeal · Gilfillan's Permit · HUMPHREYS v. Stuart Realty Corp. · Cheswick Borough v. Bechman · Firth v. Scherzberg
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.
““Once lawfully established as a nonconforming use they (the owners of the property) could enlarge that use ‘by natural expansion’. This did not constitute a new or different use but an increase of the existing use as a multiple dwelling house. Could it be argued that if, for example, the operation of a hotel constituted a nonconforming use under the terms of a zoning ordinance, and if at the time of the enactment of the ordinance it had a certain number of guest rooms, it could not subsequently legitimately increase the number by a process of subdivision?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Neither .the natural growth of a business, existing at the time of the enactment of a zoning ordinance, nor adoption thereafter of more modern instrumentalities, suitable and helpful in carrying on the business, works a change of use in legal contemplation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Such use may be extended throughout the building provided no structural alterations are made.”
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.