State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * that the owner must recover in one action ‘all damages which have resulted, or are reasonably liable to result in the future, from a proper construction or operation of the improvement, and that no subsequent action will be to recover for items which might have been considered in the original proceeding.’ ””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Delhi Gas Pipeline Corporation v. Swanson · Graham v. City of Duncan

2. ““The last contention made is that, since the act authorized a suit by Lewis Adams alone, and the present action was brought by Lewis Adams and Amelia A. Adams, his wife, it was not authorized, and the trial court was without jurisdiction to render judgment against defendant therein. This contention is made in this court for the first time. The parties plaintiff are husband and wife, and the land is their homestead. They were the grantors in the easements by which the right to construct the road across this land was acquired by the state, and while the state waived immunity as to Lewis Adams only, the joinder of the wife did not deprive the trial court of jurisdiction of the case as to Lewis Adams. If the wife is a necessary party (which fact we do not determine) we assume that the Legislature intended to waive immunity as to all necessary parties. We consider this contention without substantial merit.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Anderson v. State

3. ““Consequential damages arising by reason of the construction of a public improvement may be recovered under section 24, art. 2, of the Constitution, Okla. St. Ann. “Action to recover consequential damages to land, caused by the method of construction of a highway over a part thereof, is not necessarily predicated on negligence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Andrews v. Proctor