May v. Dewey’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2011
23 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 Ryan v. Davis · Buntin v. City of Danville · Stanpark Realty Corp. v. City of Norfolk · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Pickett · Richmond, Petersburg & Carolina Railroad v. Chamblin & Scott
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is generally the rule that the sum paid by the condemnor for similar land is not admissible because it is usually not a fair indication of market value. This rule of exclusion applies unless the offering party produces evidence sufficient to establish that the sale was not by way of compromise but voluntary and free from compulsion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]sually transactions between an owner of land that is about to be taken and the condemner fail to meet the tests of "comparable sales." Neither the purchaser nor the seller is then acting as a free agent for the price paid is usually influenced to a degree by compromise or compulsion because of the pending litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in settlement of a pending condemnation suit incident to the same project.”
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.