Lipes v. Hand’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably City of Teree Haute v. Hudnut (1887), Ross v. Stackhouse (1888)
63 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Weis v. City of Madison · Butler v. Phelps · City of Evansville v. Decker · Meranda v. Spurlin · Allen v. City of Charlestown
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Benefits are special when they increase the value of the land, relieve it from a burden, or make it especially adapted to a purpose which enhances its value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ball v. Merriman
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.