59 Misc. 2d 934 - Gardner v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “* * * The Town Board has the unquestioned power to enact zoning laws respecting the use of property and such power is subject only to the constitutional limitation that it may not be exerted arbitrarily and unreasonably. * * * The proper tests for the validity of a Zoning Ordinance is whether the ordinance is based on a comprehensive and reasonable plan which considers the best interests of the entire area zoned. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. (1973)

2. “personnel engaged in the performance of duties connected solely and directly in the course of normal farm activity,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. (1973)