Conness v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 1989 · most notably Vallejo & Northern R.R. v. Reed Orchard Co. (1915), Newton Girl Scout Council, Inc. v. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (1956)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Commonwealth v. Sturtivant · Moulton v. Newburyport Water Co. · Providence & Worcester Railroad v. City of Worcester · Maynard v. City of Northampton · Cochrane v. Commonwealth
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The sum to be awarded for real estate taken is the fair market value of the property, having reference to all the uses to which it is adapted. Its value for any special purpose is not the test, although it may be considered, with a view of ascertaining what the property is worth in the market for any use for which it would bring the most."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Igi.ovunce of (ho market price of land in the vicinity leaves the testimony of mechanical engineers and mill managers of little worth as to market values.’’”
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.