McDonald v. Powell County’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2013
19 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 Layman v. Beeler · Moore v. Lawrence County
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.
““In each case it was held th§ut the county was liable for the injury sustained by the landowner. This upon the ground that the constitutional provision, supra, gave express power for that character of action. Those actions were for injuries consequent upon the improvement of roads controlled by the county. This action is for a direct taking of property for public use without compensation. We think the same rule applies in both cases and that this ac tion may be maintained, tbe measure of damages being tbe same as in condemnation proceedings in tbe establishment of a public road.””
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.