Grubb Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1993
22 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 Richman v. Zoning Board of Adjustment · HUMPHREYS v. Stuart Realty Corp. · Peirce Appeal · Yocum Zoning Case · Grosso v. Englert
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.
“The portions of the dwelling which are to be altered are presently non-conforming as to both the side-yard and setback requirements, for all practical purposes are presently as close to appellant’s property as the entire building will be if the alteration is permitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Apparently Blanarik required some additional room for the normal increase of his business and it would be imposing a wholly unnecessary hardship upon him to prevent his taking advantage of that increase, while, on the other hand, the proposed extension to his building could not, in the remotest degree, be contrary to the public interest or militate against the general purpose of the ordinance. ...””
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.