76 N.J. Super. 409 - State v. Loux’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2011
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 Greenfield v. Dusseault · 17 N.J. Super. 1 - Struyk v. Samuel Braen's Sons · 60 N.J. Super. 436 - Greenfield v. Dusseault · Struyk v. Samuel Braen's Sons
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.
“any appropriation of the land by [a trespasser] amounted to an unlawful use. To give nonconforming-use vitality to a disfavored use by a trespasser would serve neither the specific object of the Zoning Act provision relating to nonconforming uses ... nor the more general purpose of eliminating uses not in conformity with the municipal zoning scheme.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no convincing proof as to exactly on which of these lots boats may have been placed, when they were stored, and by whom they were put there. If boats were stored, the users were at best trespassers, the use intermittent, and the time of such use indefinite. A nonconforming use may not be erected on so insubstantial a foundation. [Ibid.'S”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not lend protection to such a use, founded as it is on trespass.”
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.