37 N.J. Super. 262 - Gross v. Allan’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Kozesnik v. Township of Montgomery (1957), Town of Belleville v. Parrillo's, Inc. (1980)
3 federal appellate · 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 Schmidt v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, CITY OF NEWARK · Ward v. Scott · Yanow v. Seven Oaks Park, Inc. · Borough of Cresskill v. Borough of Dumont · Edwards v. Mayor, Etc. of Borough of Moonachie
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The criterion is whether the nature of the incipient nonconforming use, in the light of the character and adaptability to such use of the entire parcel, manifestly implies an appropriation of the entirety to such use prior to the adoption of the restrictive ordinance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The question of severability of the invalid provision is one both of legislative intent, Yanow v. Seven Oaks Park, Inc., 11 N.J. 341, 361 , 36 A.L.R. 2 d 639 (1953), and of whether the remaining provisions are functionally self-sufficient as containing the essentials of a complete enactment, Schait v. Senior, 97 N.J.L. 390, 393 ( Sup. Ct. 1922). The two criteria must coexist. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The mere requirement of the approval of particular administrative or police officers does not spell out the standards, * * *.”
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.