Polk v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 263 · 1945
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2014
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
Relies on John T. Moore Planting Co. v. Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S. Co. · Noel Estate, Inc. v. Kansas City Southern & Gulf Ry. Co. · Arkansas Improvement Co. v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. · Texas & Pac. Ry. Co. v. Ellerbe · Natalie Oil Co. v. Louisiana Ry. & Nav. Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he grant of a right-of-way for railroad purposes ordinarily vests in the railroad company virtually exclusive possession of the property over a long term of years, depriving the grantor, for all practical purposes, of all dominion over the property; hence, the property right remaining in the vendor has little or no value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Malnati v. State
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.