Leadbetter v. Ferris’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2008
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 Driscoll v. Gheewalla · Barnard v. Zoning Bd. of App. of Town of Yarmouth · Keith v. Saco River Corridor Commission · Sibley v. Inhabitants of Town of Wells · Harrington v. Inhabitants of Town of Kennebunk
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.
“(1) That the land in question cannot yield a reasonable return unless a variance is granted; (2) That the need for a variance is due to the unique circumstances of the property and not to the general conditions of the neighborhood; (8) That the granting of a variance will not alter the essential character of the locality; and (4) That the hardship is not the result of action taken by the applicant or a prior owner.”
4 later decisions 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.