State v. Pollitt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 state decisions

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It would seem, therefore, that when the legislature provides an exclusive method of procedure to condemn land, available alike to all bodies having the right to exercise the power of eminent domain, any such body seeking to exercise the right, even though it be the State itself by one of its administrative agencies, is bound by the provisions of the eminent domain statute.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Agan v. HENDRICKS SUP. CT., GIBBS, JUDGE · Thomas v. Lauer

2. “[Alny person, corporation, or other body having the right to exercise the power of eminent domain”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. BURD MANAGEMENT, LLC v. State · Cemetery Co. v. Warren School Township

3. “But, [under the Act], even after final judgment and payment of the damages, the condemnor's rights in the real estate may be forfeited if it fails for five years to devote the land to the use for which it was condemned.... Of course it would only apply in cases where less than a fee simple is condemned. When the fee is taken, theoretically at least, the land is worth the damages paid and may be sold at that price if the condemnor belatedly changes its plans with respect to the public use. But in a proceeding like this to appropriate merely a right of way, if concurrently with or following the payment of the appraisers' award the condemnor takes possession, injury to the landowner usually is the result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schwartz v. Castleton Christian Church, Inc.