Turner v. Martz’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Peluso v. Kistner (2009), 122 Pa. Commw. 371 - Gilius v. Bd. of Supv., Fairview T. (1988)
25 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 Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education · Ventresca v. Exley · 21 Pa. Commw. 264 - Commonwealth v. Flynn · 170 Pa. Super. 526 - Vogt v. Port Vue Borough · Klavon v. Zoning Hearing Board
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]here the landowner has no means by which he could determine that a sewer permit was improperly issued, where he obtained the permit and used it in good faith and where he relied upon the permit and made a large financial investment based upon its validity, then the owner does acquire a vested right in a municipal permit.” Turner at 332 , 401 A.2d at 587 .”
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.