Commonwealth v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 1966 · most notably Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Sherrod (1963), Glover v. State Highway Commission (1938)
42 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 Kentucky Hydro-Electric Co. v. Woodard · Commonwealth by State Highway Com. v. Combs · Broadway Coal Mining Co. v. Smith · City of Hazard v. Eversole · Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. Laferty
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court instructs the commissioners that the fair market value of the property is the price it will bring when offered for sale by one who desires, but is not obliged, to sell and is bought by one who desires, but is under no necessity, to buy. “It is not the question of the value of the property to the Commonwealth or to the owner personally. Nor can the value be increased or reduced by an unwillingness to sell it or because the Commonwealth needs the particular property; nor because of the proposed construction of the road.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We the jury, find from the evidence that the fair and reasonable cash value of the .31 acres taken from Robert Pierson, et al., was and is the sum of $1600.00. We further find as damage .to the remainder of the tract, the sum of $6,150.00. Our total verdict, therefore, is the sum of $7,750.00. Edwin C. Gilson, Foreman.””
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.