Searles v. Darling’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Palmer v. Board of Zoning Adjustment (1972), In Re the Application of Emmett S. Hickman Co. (1954)
1 federal appellate · 48 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 People Ex Rel. Fordham Manor Reformed Church v. Walsh · Heath v. M. C.C. of Baltimore · Devereux Foundation, Inc., Zoning Case · Brackett v. Board of Appeal · Greenwich Gas Co. v. Tuthill
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the statute says that the evidence taken before the court of record shall constitute ‘a part of the proceedings upon which the determination of the court shall be made’ causes us to believe that a proper record sent up by the Board would be a factor often controlling the disposition of the case by the Superior Court, but necessarily would not always constitute the entire basis for decision. If the record below shows that there was substantial evidence upon which the Board could properly have based its decision, while correctly applying the law to the facts, it would be the duty of the court to sustain the Board, even though the court would have decided otherwise had the matter come before it in the first instance. That is to say, the record sent up by the Board would control the issue unless there was abuse of discretion or error of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall concisely set forth such other facts as may be pertinent and material to show the grounds of the decision appealed from”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.