Beetschen v. Shell Pipe Line Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State Ex Rel. Askew v. Kopp (1960), National Bank of Alaska v. J. B. L. & K. of Alaska, Inc. (1976)
12 federal appellate · 36 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 Haehl v. Wabash Railroad · Finney v. Berry · The Mechanics Bank of Alexandria v. Louisa Seton · Doyle v. Kansas City & Southern Railway Co. · Webster v. Kansas City & Southern Railway Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an entity otherwise entitled to exercise the power of eminent domain ignores that power and trespasses upon private land, the landowner has an election of remedies. The landowner ‘may proceed by way of injunction to restrain the installation; or he may sue in ejectment; or he may avail himself of [section 523.090]; or he may maintain a common law action for damages.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[H]is theory is that of acquiescence in the taking, consent to the appropriation, and in that event he has but one action, in which he must recover all damages, past, present and prospective. Upon the payment of the judgment in such case the same right in the land is conferred upon the corporation as if it had condemned the land formally.”
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.