State v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shoemaker v. United States · United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co. · Sears v. City of Akron · United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry Co · State Ex Rel. Department of Highways v. MacAluso
Most-quoted passages
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“This governing constitutional enactment, of course, overrides within its scope [for highway purposes] earlier expressions and holdings cited to the effect that the necessity of the taking is a matter for judicial determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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