State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘deprives an owner [of land] of one of its essential attributes, destroys its value, restricts or interrupts its common necessary, or profitable use, ... or imposes conditions upon the right to hold or use it and thereby seriously impairs its value’.” State v. Johnson, Me., 265 A.2d 711, 715 (1970).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Orono-Veazie Water District v. Penobscot County Water Co. · Clardy v. Town of Livermore

2. “[T]he area of Wetlands representing a “valuable natural resource of the State,” of which appellants’ holdings are but a minute part, is of state-wide concern. The benefits from its preservation ... are state-wide. The cost of its preservation should be publicly borne. To leave appellants with commercially valueless land in upholding the restriction presently imposed, is to charge them with more than their just share of the cost of this state-wide conservation program, granting fully its commendable purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Florida Rock Industries, Inc. v. United States

3. ““[a]dditional considerations of health and pollution which are ‘separable from and independent of’ the ‘fill’ restriction may well support validity of * * * [regulations] in those areas of concern.” Id at 717.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Milardo v. Coastal Resources Management Council