Commonwealth v. Renick’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2018
1 district · 10 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 Schwab v. Pottstown Borough · Truitt v. Borough of Ambridge Water Authority · Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad v. Williams · Harrisburg Light & Power Co. v. Sebastian
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nasmuch as property cannot constitutionally taken by eminent domain except for public use, no more property may be taken than the public use requires — a rule which applies both to the amount of property and the estate or interest to be acquired.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.