United States v. Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 294 · 1923
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1984 · most notably Brooks-Scanlon Corporation v. United States (1924), American Mail Line, Ltd. v. Skagit River Navigation & Trading Co. (1937)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Benedict (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States · United States v. Benedict · Benedict v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement that `just compensation' shall be paid is comprehensive and includes all elements and no specific command to include interest is necessary when interest or its equivalent is a part of such compensation. Where the United States condemns and takes possession of land before ascertaining or paying compensation, the owner is not limited to the value of the property at the time of the taking; he is entitled to such addition as will produce the full equivalent of that value paid contemporaneously with the taking. Interest at a proper rate is a good measure by which to ascertain the amount so to be added.”
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.