39 N.J. Super. 430 - Keller v. Westfield’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1997
21 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 Beirn v. Morris · Dolan v. DeCapua · 39 N.J. Super. 18 - State v. Mair · 30 N.J. Super. 338 - Second Reformed Church v. Bd. of Adjustment
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the requirement for residence is dropped, what was a home becomes a professional building (where perhaps more than one doctor, lawyer, etc., may engage in the pursuit of his profession); or an erstwhile home is transformed into a place where the business of dressmaking or millinery or music instruction is conducted. Thus, a clearly discordant element is injected into a high-class residential district and erosion of the overall zoning scheme begins.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A departure from the requirement for residence in such cases is authorized only when it would be consistent with the spirit of the zoning plan and in harmony with N.J.S.A. 40:55-39(d). The record before us is barren of circumstances showing undue hardship or special reasons, within the legislative intendment. Accordingly, the grant of variance cannot be sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the letter and the underlying philosophy of the ordinance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wyzykowski v. Rizas
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.