Seabloom v. Krier’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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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.

1. ““The word ‘taking’ and all words and phrases of like import include every interference, under the right of eminent domain, with the ownership, possession, enjoyment, or value of private property.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Northern Natural Gas Co. v. County of Blue Earth · State v. Robinson

2. “* * * We think that under these explicit terms of the statute it became the duty of the commissioners to make awards compensating both owners and tenants for all property taken. The respective interests of the parties constituted property rights taken and appropriated by the state. In conformity with that duty, they made the award to both the fee owner and his tenants. It seems clear that in so doing they concluded that such rights and interests of the owner and his tenants should be left for future determination by the parties themselves or, if they could not agree, that such determination should be made by the court. In so disposing of that issue, they were but following our decision in Kafka v. Davidson, 135 Minn. 389 , and 394, 160 N.W. 1021 , and 1023, where we held that an award of damages in condemnation — 'may be made in gross and be apportioned thereafter between the various parties in interest according to their interests'; that all such 'parties are bound and concluded by the award as fixed and determined' in such condemnation; that 'Any party entitled to share in the award may bring an action for his share against any other party to whom such share has been paid'; and where a leasehold estate has been taken 'it is well settled that the measure of damages is the fair market value of the estate so taken.' " The "unit rule”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Robinson

3. “A tenant under a lease is one who has been given a possession of land which is "exclusive even of the landlord except as the lease permits his entry, and saving always the landlord's right to enter to demand rent or to make repairs." A licensee is one who has a "mere permission to use land, dominion over it remaining in the owner and no interest in or exclusive possession of it being given" to the occupant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 974 So. 2d 470 - Turner v. FLORIDA STATE FAIR AUTHORITY