Wright v. Shugrue’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2007
2 district · 17 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 Slavitt v. Ives · Vartelas v. Water Resources Commission · Stock v. Cox · Laurel, Inc. v. State · Zygmont v. Planning & Zoning Commission
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inverse condemnation or a constitutional taking may be complete without an actual, physical appropriation of property. . .when property cannot be utilized for any reasonable and proper purpose, as where the economic utility of the property has, for all practical purposes, been destroyed. . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The question of whether certain pieces or parcels of land are to be considered”
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.