Rassi v. Trunkline Gas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2009
11 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717F
Relies on Kohl v. United States · Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Public Service Commission · United States v. Carmack · Joslin Mfg Co v. City of Providence · Rindge Co v. Los Angeles County Rindge 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is much authority to the effect that the extent of the public necessity for a proposed improvement, the suitableness of the location selected, and the consequent necessity of taking the land selected for its site are all questions for the legislature to determine, and the courts have no power to interfere or substitute their own views for those of the legislature unless the action by the legislature is arbitrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The necessity and expediency of taking property for public use is a legislative question, and where the intended use is public, this question may be determined by such agency and in such manner as the legislature may designate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To allow the courts to substitute their judgment for that rendered by the representatives of the people, in instances where the legislature has not acted arbitrarily, would violate the doctrine of separation of powers.”
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.