Foley v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Lenoir City v. State ex rel. City of Loudon · Oliver v. King · Marion County Board of Commissioners v. Marion County Election Commission · Foley v. Hamilton
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“then no plat of a subdivision of land within such region, other than land located within the boundaries of any municipal corporation, shall be filed for record or recorded until it shall have been approved by such regional planning commission and such approval be endorsed in writing on the plat by the secretary of the commission....”
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.