Finnell v. Pitts’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably 792 So. 2d 392 - Ex Parte Cranman (2000), State Docks Commission v. Barnes (1932)
2 federal appellate · 86 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 Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States · Bradley v. Fisher · United States v. Cress · United States v. Arthur Lynah · State of Kansas v. State of Colorado
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a person commits a tort, it is wholly immaterial upon the question of his liability, whether he was acting officially or personally.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“private property shall not be taken for, or applied to public use, unless just compensation be first made therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“invested with the privilege of taking property for public use”
1 later decision 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.