Wenderoth v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1995
23 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 Selle v. City of Fayetteville · Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Partain · Risser v. City of Little Rock · Ark. State Highway Comm. v. McNeill · Holden v. Carmean
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any diminution in property values that may result from an inconvenience of this kind is not compensable. . . . [S]uch damages are not special or peculiar to the complaining landowners. As we said [in Risser v. City of Little Rock]: "Every person that travels the street suffers the same inconvenience as the appellants.” Thus the case falls within the rule that “a landowner whose land is not being taken is not entitled to compensation for damage of the same kind as that suffered by the public in general, even though the inconvenience and injury to the particular landowner may be greater in degree than that to others.” Ark. State Highway Comm. v. McNeill, 238 Ark. 244 , 381 S.W.2d 425 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is not enough for a landowner to show that his damage differs from that suffered by the general public. He must also show either that part of his land has been taken or that a property right has been invaded. Nichols, Eminent Domain (3d Ed.), § 14.1 It must often happen that the value of a city lot is diminished as a result of the condemnation of adjoining property for some distasteful purpose, such as the construction of a city jail. But, as the court convincingly demonstrated in City of Geary v. Moore, 181 Okla. 616 , 75 P.2d 891 , this is an injury “for which the law does not, and never has, afforded any relief.” [ 238 Ark. at 466 , 382 S.W.2d at 579 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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