Graves v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2023
11 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 Lee v. . Board of Adjustment · Danforth v. City of Yankton · Application of Dakota Transp. Co. · Holzbauer v. Ritter · Nicolai v. Board of Adjustment, Etc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to a decision by a board of adjustment made pursuant to the provisions of [SDCL 11-4-25 through 29], the question on a review is whether an order of the board is supported by substantial evidence and is reasonable and not arbitrary. No such issue as to the discretion of the board arises under the facts here presented. The board had no power to permit a prohibited use, that being a legislative power vested only in the city commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.