Champlin Refining Co. v. Donnell’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2007
21 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 Patch v. City of Boston · Kansas Central Railway Co. v. Allen · St. Louis, El Reno & Western Railway Co. v. Oliver · Spurrier Lumber Co. v. Dodson · Manning v. City of Lowell
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court will not substitute its judgment for that of the jury in the matter of damages to be awarded for the condemnation of property for public use. To do so would be to destroy the jury system and right of trial by jury guaranteed by the Constitution.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * the form of the question propounded is objectionable. The ultimate question for the jury to determine in this class of cases is, the value of the land actually taken, and if less than the whole tract is taken, how much that portion not taken is diminished in market value in consequence of the taking. These values are to be determined with reference to what the land is worth for sale in view of the uses to which it might have been applied. “The evidence then should be as to the reasonable market value of the lands-immediately before the taking and immediately thereafter.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * ‘An appellate court should hesitate before setting aside the verdict of a jury in a condemnation case, and it will only make such order when it clearly appears that the verdict was unjust and unsupported by any competent evidence. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.