Potter v. Chettle’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2013
6 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 Spearing v. Silverman
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Same — Buildings not abutting on improved street shown on map. (a) No building permit for the erection of any building shall be issued unless the building lot abuts a street which has been placed on the official map giving access to the proposed structure. Before a permit shall be issued, such street shall have been certified to be suitably improved according to the standards of this section by the director of public works. If such a street is not suitably improved, such improvement shall be ensured by means of a performance guarantee in accordance with rules and regulations adopted in the same manner as rules and regulations for subdivisions as provided in G.L.1956 § 45-23-1 et seq. The planning commission shall determine which standard shall apply for each case. The planning commission shall advise the director of public works of the applicable standard so that he may review the conditions of a road, prior to the issuance of a building permit and certify the road’s conditions. (b) The standards for a suitably improved road are: (1) Gravel road. A twenty-four-foot-wide driving area that shall be stripped of all rocks, stumps and loam to a depth of twelve (12) inches and replaced with ten (10) inches of bank run gravel and two (2) inches of processed gravel. (2) Oiled road. A twenty-four-foot-wide driving area that shall be stripped of all rocks, stumps and loam to a depth of twelve (12) inches and replaced with ten (10) inches of bank run gravel and two (2) inches of proces”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Appeals. — Any person aggrieved by any decision of the board or the council, as the case may be, may present to the supreme court a petition duly verified setting forth that the decision is illegal in whole or in part and specifying the grounds of illegality. * * * Upon presentation of the petition, the court may allow a writ of certiorari directed to the board or council to review such decision of the board or council * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“appeals from 'mapped street’ decisions proceed to the Supreme Court”
2 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.