Foster v. Lake County’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1933
most recently cited
2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 4436, Or. L. [now section 44-131, Oregon Code 1930], expressly declares that rights of way for state highways shall be acquired by the counties in which the highway is situated and provides that such rights of way may be acquired by either donation, purchase, agreement, condemnation or through the exercise of the power of eminent domain by the county before any contract shall be ratified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grigsby v. Miller
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