Pickens County v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably Alabama Power Co. v. Thompson (1947), Southern Electric Generating Co. v. Leibacher (1959)
40 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 Hodge v. Joy · McRea v. Marion County · Alabama Power Co. v. Henson · Pryor v. Limestone County · O'Neill v. City of Birmingham
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is relevant to inquire into the several elements of value, such as the uses to which the property is adapted, although not presently so used, if it appears such prospective use affects the present market value of the property. Whatever an intelligent buyer would esteem as an element of value at the time of taking may be considered. Alabama Central Railroad Company v. Musgrove, 169 Ala. 424 , 53 So. 1009 ; Ensign Yellow Pine Co. v. Hohenberg, 200 Ala. 149 , 75 So. 897 ; Crawford v. City of Decatur, 226 Ala. 418, 419 , 147 So. 615 ; O’Neill v. City of Birmingham et al., 221 Ala. 580, 584 , 130 So. 87 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`leave to the Legislature the right to fix the measurement and method of proof in such cases, so that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o be ascertained as may be provided by law”
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.