Perry County v. Townes’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Kentucky State Park Commission v. Wilder (1935), City of Ashland v. Queen (1934)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Layman v. Beeler · City of Henderson v. McClain · Moore v. Lawrence County · O'Gara v. City of Dayton · Cassell v. Bd. Councilmen
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The provision of the Constitution which requires that municipalities and other corporations taking private property for public use shall make just compensation for the property taken, injured or destroyed by them, necessarily implies that, if the corporation should fail to make the compensation before the taking or injuring, it is liable therefore after such taking or injury, and that, if it will not pay the damages, an action is necessarily authorized to be instituted against it; for it would be idle to give to a party a right without a remedy to enforce it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The removal of the lateral support • of premises bordering on a highway, in making highway improvements, to the extent of causing a substantial part of the adjoining owners’ land to subside and fall so as to injure the premises affected, is to all intents and purposes an invasion of private property rights; and appropriation of the soil to the extent of such injury, and amounts to a talcing of 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.