Thurston v. Cache County’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2020
15 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 Baker v. Matheson · Price v. Smith · 16 Utah 2d 192 - Naylor v. Salt Lake City Corporation · Walton v. Tracy Loan & Trust Co. · Osius v. City of St. Clair Shores
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is true that a zoning ordinance must set some ascertainable boundaries on the exercise of discretion by a zoning authority, such boundaries are not required to be unduly rigid or detailed. A generalized exposition of overall standards or policy goals suffices to direct the inquiry and deliberation of the zoning authority, and to permit appellate review of its decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While it is true that the consent of neighboring landowners may not be made a criterion for the issuance or denial [of] a conditional use permit, there is no impropriety in the solicitation of, or reliance upon, information which may be furnished by other landowners in the vicinity of the subject property at a public hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Zjoning authorities are bound by the terms and standards of the applicable zoning ordinance, and are not at liberty to either grant or deny conditional use permits in derogation of legislative standards. Within the boundaries of such standards, however, the zoning authority is afforded a broad latitude of discretion.”
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.