Wilson v. Manning’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2015
16 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 87 Wash. 2d 847 - Leonard v. City of Bothell · Kelley v. John · 28 Cal. App. 3d 574 - Duran v. Cassidy · Forest City Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Eastlake · 3 Utah 2d 1 - Dewey v. Doxey-Layton Realty Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the one hand, the public policy underlying the right to a voter referendum would apply that right to almost all government actions that affect citizens in vital areas of concern, including the enactment and change of zoning laws and ordinances. On the other hand, the importance of professional expertise and community-wide perspective in zoning matters, given effect in common requirements for public hearings, planning commission recommendations, and the establishment of comprehensive plans, weighs against the piecemeal changes that can result from allowing voters to veto zoning actions by referenda. Whatever the merit of these contrasting policies, they are not applied in the abstract, but against the background of the various constitutional provisions and statutes each state has adopted on the subjects of zoning and referendum.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the trial court must decide whether the zoning change 'constitutes such a material variation from the basic zoning law of the governmental unit as to constitute ... the making of a new law rather than merely ... implementing the comprehensive plan and adjusting it to current conditions.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the [legislative-administrative] distinction, considerable clarification is needed in its application to zoning ordinances.”
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.