United States v. Ham’s Empirical Analysis
187 F.2d 265 · 1951
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably United States v. 5139.5 Acres of Land (1952), United States v. 3,698.63 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situate in Burleigh, Emmons and Morton Counties, State of North Dakota, and Anton Tschida, and Unknown Owners. Heirs of Herbert Lang, Deceased, Ralph E. Lang and Walter Lang, United States of America v. 2,134.46 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situate in Burleigh and Morton Counties, State of North Dakota and Herman Bliese, and Unknown Owners. Alex W. MacLean Robert B. MacLean William v. MacLean and Pauline M. MacLean (1969)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Olson v. United States · Brooks-Scanlon Corporation v. United States · Baetjer v. United States · United States v. Becktold Co. · Welch v. Tennessee Valley Authority
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remarks and conduct of the judge presiding in the trial or assessment of damages before a jury in condemnation cases should be such as will promote a fair and impartial trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““On the government side greater weight and importance was claimed for the element of sales value and on the owner’s side the stress was on the probative force of the use value. To fairly try the issue and determine just compensation in this case it was necessary for the jury to consider both sides of the dispute and to weigh the evidence of use value which tended to enhance compensation for the taking against the evidence of the sales value which tended to diminish it, and the duty rested on the court to conduct the proceedings of the trial so as to obtain fair and impartial consideration of both sides.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Use value as reflected by net income as a criterion by which to determine market value of farm lands has many frailties because it is dependent upon many uncertain and variable factors. Among these may be mentioned skill of husbandry, weather conditions, market conditions, cost of labor, cost •of fuel, cost of machinery, depreciation of machinery, taxes on the land, taxes on the machinery and many other factors wholly unrelated to the fertility or productivity of the soil or its capacity to produce.””
1 later decision 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.