Beck v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Loss of access is compensable and may be considered by you in determining the damages to be awarded the defendants only when such loss of access is special and peculiar to this property, and only when no other reasonable means of access is available to the property.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Peterson · 178 Ind. App. 167 - State v. Gradison

2. ““The instruction permitted the jury to determine from the evidence whether the access remaining from Highway 460 to the property in question was a reasonable means of access under the circumstances and whether or not the property owners had suffered a compensable damage as a result of the cutting off of a portion of the road frontage by the construction of a limited access fence. . . .” Beck, supra, 256 Ind. at 323 , 268 N.E.2d at 749 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 178 Ind. App. 167 - State v. Gradison

3. “main body of land was cut off from [hJlighway”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kimco of Evansville, Inc.