Curtis v. Main’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2013
1 district · 13 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 · Comeau v. Maine Coastal Services · Barnard v. Zoning Bd. of App. of Town of Yarmouth · State v. Johnson · LaPointe v. City of Saco
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“3. Variance. A variance may be granted by the Board only where strict application of the ordinance, or a provision thereof, to the petitioner and his property would cause undue hardship. The words “undue hardship” as used in this subsection mean: A. That the land in question cannot yield a reasonable return unless a variance is granted; B. That the need for a variance is due to the unique circumstances of the property and not to the general conditions in the neighborhood; C. That the granting of a variance will not alter the essential character of the locality; and D. That the hardship is not the result of action taken by the applicant or a prior owner.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Reasonable return is not maximum return.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matthew v. Smith
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.