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Conservation Commission v. Pacheco’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
May 2022
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Davis v. Zoning Board of Chatham (2001), Boston Bicycle Couriers, Inc. v. Deputy Director of the Division of Employment & Training (2002)

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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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 Angel v. Bullington · Logarusic v. United States · Durfee v. Duke · Roemer v. United States · Peterson v. Hopson

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “impossible by any reasonable construction [to] be interpreted in harmony with the legislative mandate.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “could be affirmed as well within [his or] her discretion under the 'law of the case' doctrine”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “is devoid of any conceivable ground upon which [the action] may be upheld,”
    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.