Burnett v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably City of Trenton v. Lenzner (1954), State v. Lanza (1958)
29 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 City of Newark v. New Jersey Turnpike Authority · Tide-Water Co. v. Coster · Scudder v. Trenton Delaware Falls Co. · 7 N.J. Super. 540 - MAYOR, ETC., ELIZABETH v. NJ Turnpike Authority · 31 N.J. Eq. 475 - Central Railroad v. Pennsylvania Railroad
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in condemnation proceedings the quantity of land to be taken, its location and the time of taking are within the discretion of the body endowed by the Legislature with the right of eminent domain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.