Duffy v. Milder’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2021
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 Wyshak v. American Savings Bank, F.A. · Melhorn v. United States · Town of Scituate v. O'ROURKE · E.W. Audet & Sons, Inc. v. Fireman's Fund Insurace Co. of Newark · Commercial Union Insurance v. Pelchat
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 keeping of horses on this lot is currently considered a lawfully nonconforming and permitted use and shall be allowed to continue until such time as an overt action for discontinuation is conducted by the property owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“either an owners' (or legal tenant if applicable) overt act or a failure to act which demonstrates that there is neither a claim nor any interest in continuing the nonconforming use”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did not acquire any nonconforming use to keep horses on the property because any such rights had been extinguished before the property was conveyed to them.”
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.