Dillon v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2013
3 federal appellate · 13 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 St. Louis & Cairo Railroad v. Postal Telegraph Co. · West v. Anderson · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Virginian Railway Co. · Charles v. Big Sandy & Cumberland Railroad · Rand v. Mississippi State Highway 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the issue of just compensation is to be determined by a commission, the court shall summon nine disinterested freeholders, or five disinterested freeholders if the parties so agree, * * *. If nine are summoned, the petitioner and the owners shall each have two peremptory challenges and the remaining five, or the original five if only five are summoned, shall be appointed, any three or more of whom may act, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Although the description in the petition of the property sought to be condemned, or of the location, route, and termini of the improvement, may in itself be insufficient, it may be made sufficient by reference to other documents, such as maps, plats, surveys, deeds, and the like, unless such maps, etc., are insufficient in themselves to aid or render certain the description given in the petition, # #”
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.