Luter v. Hammon’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

cited by 19 later decisions

states following

August 2017

most recently cited

19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2017

19 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 Deliberto v. Hartford Insurance Co. · 443 So. 2d 1173 - WOODLAND HILLS CONS. ASS'N v. City of Jackson · Board of Aldermen, City of Clinton v. Conerly · 489 So. 2d 501 - Broadacres, Inc. v. City of Hattiesburg · 423 So. 2d 1323 - Bd. of Aldermen of Town of Bay Springs v. Jenkins

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

“. Luter v. Hammon, 529 So.2d 625, 628 (Miss.1988). Specifically, the fairly debatable standard applies to the legislative questions whether there has been a change in the character of the neighborhood and whether there is a public need for the rezoning. If these two questions may, on the matters before the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, be said fairly debatable, there is no judicial authority to interfere and the action taken by the city zoning authorities, be it pro or con the proposed rezoning, must be allowed to stand. Id.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. McWaters v. City of Biloxi · 755 So. 2d 1154 - Burdine v. City of Greenville
“(1) there was a mistake in the original zoning or (2)(a) the character of the neighborhood has changed to such an extent as to justify rezoning and (b) that a public need exists for rezoning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. McWaters v. City of Biloxi · 995 So. 2d 81 - Bridge v. MAYOR & BD. OF ALDERMEN OF CITY OF OXFORD
“Saunders v. City of Jackson, 511 So.2d 902, 906 (Miss.1987).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Edwards v. Harrison County Board of Supervisors · 995 So. 2d 81 - Bridge v. MAYOR & BD. OF ALDERMEN OF CITY OF OXFORD

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