Hietpas v. State’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. “[T]he definition of special benefits should be extended to include enhanced value because of more advantageous adaptability for use. Land which by reason of its proximity to a no-access highway interchange is enhanced in value because its highest and best use, assuming the completion of the public improvement, is immediately favorably changed or its potential for favorable change in use appears by reasonable probability to be imminent, is specially benefited.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 380 Wis. 2d 399 - CED Properties, LLC v. City of Oshkosh · Taylor v. State ex rel. Herman

2. “Special benefits accruing to the property and affecting its market value because of the planned public improvement shall be considered and used to offset the value of property taken or damages under sub. (6), but in no event shall such benefits be allowed in excess of damages described under sub. (6).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 177 Wis. 2d 822 - Red Top Farms v. State Department of Transportation, Division of Highways

3. “direct, immediate, and certain [benefits], both as to time and place; not remote or speculative.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 177 Wis. 2d 822 - Red Top Farms v. State Department of Transportation, Division of Highways