Cushing v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2024
11 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 Driscoll v. Gheewalla · Singal v. City of Bangor · Stanton v. Trustees of St. Joseph's College · State Ex Rel. Brennan v. RD Realty Corporation · Churchill v. S. A. D. 49 Teachers Ass'n
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A board of appeals is established in any municipality which adopts a zoning ordinance. The board of appeals shall hear appeals from actions or failure to act of the official or board responsible for enforcing the zoning ordinance, unless only a direct appeal to the Superior Court has been provided by municipal ordinance. Such board of appeals shall be governed by section 2411.... 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“requires a party to proceed in the administrative . . . arena until all possible administrative remedies are exhausted before initiating action in the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“recognize the advantages of leaving some preliminary determinations to the agencies which are particularly competent to handle them.”
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.