State v. Heltborg’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1987
16 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 State v. Peterson · State v. Hoblitt · State v. Bradshaw Land & Livestock Co. · Tomten v. Thomas · Lewis Clark County v. Nett
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.
““The purpose of setting forth the example [capitalization of income method used by both contestants] is not to approve or disapprove of any particular method, but to show that the jury, the triers of the facts, had before it the various figures from opinions of experts, based upon substantial evidence of number of acres, tons of hay per acre, aftermath of grass per acre, reasonable return on investment figures, etc., in order that they could consider all of the circumstances which immediately and directly depreciate the present market value of the portions of the whole tract adjacent to the strip sought to be taken as we referred to in the Nett case [Lewis and Clark County v. Nett, 81 Mont. 261 , 263 P. 418 ], supra.” Emphasis supplied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * to ascertain and determine * * * the following: “1. The value of the property sought to be appropriated and all improvements thereon pertaining to the realty, and of each and every separate estate and interest therein; if it consist of different parcels, the value of each parcel and each estate or interest therein must be separately assessed. “2. If the property sought to be appropriated constitutes only a part of a larger parcel, the depreciation in value which will accrue to the portion not sought to be condemned, by reason of its severance from the portion sought to be condemned, and the construction of the improvements in the manner proposed by the plaintiff. * * *””
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.