State v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Whilst the fact that a piece of property may, at some time, become available for residential subdivision purposes, can be taken into consideration in fixing its market value in expropriation proceedings, it should be made to appear that there is some reasonable expectation that it might be so developed in the not too far distant future. It will not do for the owner to say that at some indefinite time it is foreseeable that this property, because it adjoins a growing town, will have an added value as a subdivision project. A situation like that presents only a possibility of such use, and * * * the "possibility”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 207 So. 2d 380 - State v. Jenkins

2. “`The testimony of each expert should be given effect if that testimony is well reasoned and sincere.' State [Through Department of Highways] v. Boyer, 1961, [La.]App., 130 So.2d 738, 744 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rapier

3. ““The trial court’s factual determination as to the value of property expropriated, reached after hearing the witnesses will not be disturbed in the absence of manifest error.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Riley