Keyes v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.2d 444 · 1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1962
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1401
Relies on Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White · Borden's Farm Products Co. v. Baldwin · N. P. Severin Co. v. Young · Wisconsin v. Michigan · Dornan v. Philadelphia Housing Authority
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An Act To expedite the construction of public buildings and works outside of the District of Columbia by enabling possession and title of sites to be taken in advance of final judgment in proceedings for the acquisition thereof under the power of eminent domain. “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in any proceeding in any court of the United States outside of the District of Columbia which has been or may be instituted by and in the name of and under the authority of the United States for the acquisition of any land or easement or right of way in land for the public use, the petitioner may file in the cause, with the petition or at any time before judgment, a declaration of taking signed by the authority empowered by law to acquire the lands described in the petition, declaring that said lands are thereby taken for the use of the United States. Said declaration of taking shall contain or have annexed thereto— “(1) A statement of the authority under which and the public use for which said lands are taken. “(2) A description of the lands taken sufficient for the identification thereof. “(3) A statement of the estate or interest in said lands taken for said public use. “(4) A plan showing the lands taken. “(5) A statement of the sum of money estimated by said acquiring authority to be just compensation for the land taken. “Upon the filing said declaration of taking and of the deposit in the court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Upon the filing of a declaration of taking, the court shall have power to fix the time within which and the terms 'upon which the parties- in possession shall be required to surrender possession to the petitioner. The court shall have power to make such orders in respect of encumbrances, liens, rents, taxes, assessments, insurance, and other charges, if any, as shall be just and equitable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(4) A plan showing the lands taken.“(5) A statement of the sum of money estimated by said acquiring authority to be just compensation for the land taken.”
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.