Clendaniel v. Conrad’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably Pan American Petroleum Corporation v. Superior Court of Delaware in and for New Castle County Texaco Inc (1961), Collison v. State (1938)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Townsend · United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co. · Ex parte Easton · Northern Pac Co v. Smith · United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The boulevard corporation cannot construct its boulevard, after its organization, but by the permission of the state authorities. The commission created by the statute have the absolute discretion to determine the feasibility and desirability of the route between any stated termini. No work can be done until plans are filed with the secretary of state, and no plans can be filed until they are approved by the state commission. Such provisions in the law sufficiently protect the state, because they enable it to determine, through its official representatives the feasibility and desirability of the proposed route as well as the character and quality of the road.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“«* * * for the purpose of locating, building, constructing, maintaining and operating a Boulevard extending from a place in the Northern part of New Castle County, by as nearly a straight course as may prove feasible and desirable, through the State of Delaware to the Southern boundary thereof, and for the purpose of constructing upon said Boulevard a well built road for vehicular travel such as is required by said Act as amended, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * nor shall any man’s property be taken or applied to public use without the consent of his representatives, and without compensation being made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.