San Diego Land Town Co v. City of National City’s Empirical Analysis
174 U.S. 739 · 1899
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 95 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 417 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000 · most notably Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson (1932), Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934)
43 federal appellate · 95 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Smyth v. Ames · Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Chicago Ry Co v. Wellman · Covington Turnpike Road Co v. Sandford
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 417 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by any of its agencies, legislative, executive or judicial,”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As the property remains in the ownership of the complainant, the question is whether the complainant has been deprived of a fair return for the service rendered to the public in the use of the property. This court has repeatedly held that the basis of calculation is the fair value of the property; that is, that what the complainant is entitled to demand, in order that it may have ‘just compensation’ is ‘a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.’ ””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * And, in order to ascertain that value, the original cost of construction, the amount expended in permanent improvements, the amount and market value of its bonds and stock, the present as compared with the original cost of construction, the probable earning capacity of the property under particular rates prescribed by statute, and the sum required to meet operating expenses, are all matters for consideration, and are to be given such weight as may be just and right in each case. * * * ””
8 later decisions 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.