A. W. Cline v. Kansas Gas and Electric Company, a Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
260 F.2d 271 · 1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1979
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Sutton v. Frazier · San Joaquin & Kings River Canal & Irrigation Co. v. Stevinson · Southern Illinois & Missouri Bridge Co. v. Stone · Cline v. Kansas Gas & Electric Company · In Re Condemnation by Dairyland Power Cooperative
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Lands may be appropriated for the use of macadam-road, plank-road, hospital corporation or association, telegraph and telephone corporations, electric, hydraulic, irrigating, milling and manufacturing corporations using power, oil companies, pipe-line companies, and for the piping of gas in the same manner as is provided in sections 1 to 16 [26-501 to 26-516], inclusive of this act, and any macadam-road, plank-road, telegraph and telephone corporations, hydraulic, irrigating, oil company, pipe-line company, gas company partnership holding a certificate of convenience as a public utility issued by the state corporation commission, milling or manufacturing corporation using power desiring the right to dam or take water from any stream, to conduct water in canals or raceways or pipes, or to conduct compressed air in pipes, or to conduct oil in pipes or conduct gas in pipes, or transmit power or communications by shafting, belting, or belting and pulleys, or ropes and pulleys, or by electrical current, or by compressed air, may obtain such right or the right of way for all necessary canals, raceways, pipes, shafting, belting and pulleys, ropes and pulleys or wires or cables in manner as aforesaid *”
2 later decisions 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.