Fulton County v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2013
6 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 Gradous v. Board of Commissioners · Trend Development Corp. v. Douglas County · Jebco Ventures, Inc. v. City of Smyrna · Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Inc. v. Clayton County · Cobb County v. Wilson
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.
“Under the eminent domain provision of the Georgia Constitution there may be no damage to the property of an individual for a public purpose without there first being compensation. In the context of regulation, including zoning, this has been construed to mean that actions of the governing authority which exceed the police power will rise to the level of condemnation and require compensation....”
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.