Schaefer v. Neumann’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · 11 Wis. 2d 449 - Sohns v. Jensen · 84 N.J. Super. 85 - NY Central RR v. Ridgefield · McNeal v. Manchester Insurance & Indemnity Co. · Suburbia Gardens Nursery, Inc. v. County of St. Louis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he burden of proving the right to maintain a non-conforming use is on the party seeking to continue said use. It is that party who must prove the essential elements of the right to maintain the use, including prior existence of the use, and denial of such use will be sustained where the evidence in support of such prior use is insufficient or contradictory.”
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.