Conner v. Herd’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1999
16 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 State Ex Inf. McAllister Ex Rel. Lincoln v. Bird · Veal v. Leimkuehler · Rosedale-Skinker Improvement Ass'n v. Board of Adjustment · State Ex Rel. Ludlow v. Guffey · Brown v. Beuc
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * * * * In passing upon appeals [the board of adjustment shall have the power], where there are practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship in the way of carrying out the strict letter of such ordinance, to vary or modify the application of any of the regulations or provisions of such ordinance relating to the use, construction or alteration of buildings or structures or the use of land so that the spirit of the ordinance shall be observed, public safety and welfare secured and substantial justice done.”
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.