Karelitz v. Soraghan’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2018
9 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 Matthew v. Smith · Rosedale-Skinker Improvement Ass'n v. Board of Adjustment · Ogawa v. City of Des Peres · 19 Misc. 2d 909 - Wachsberger v. Michalis · State Ex Rel. C. C. G. Management Corp. v. City of Overland
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The phrase in Kirkwood’s ordinance “other extraordinary or exceptional sitúa tion or condition of a specific piece of property” evinces an intent to cover other situations of practical difficulties or of undue hardship to the landowner. Although the phrase follows language which relates to the physical characteristics of the property, the phrase indicates that Board may look at criteria other than the physical characteristics of the property. The language therefore broadens, rather than restricts, the factors Board may consider in granting a variance.”
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.