Campbell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

77 federal appellate · 16 district · 133 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 347 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The rule supported by better reason and the weight of authority is that the just compensation assured by the Fifth Amendment to an owner, a part of whose land is taken for public use, does not include the diminution in value of the remainder caused by the acquisition and use of adjoining lands of others for the same undertaking.”

   22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. An Easement & Right-Of-Way Over 1.58 Acres of Land · Lee County v. Exchange Nat. Bank of Tampa

2. “became entitled to have the just compensation safeguarded by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution; that is, the value of the land taken and the damages inflicted by the taking — such a sum as would put him in as good a position pecuniarily as he would have been if his property had not been taken. Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co. v. United States, 261 U.S. 299 , 304, 43 S.Ct. 354, 67 L.Ed. 664. But he was not entitled to have more than that.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Intertype Corp. v. Clark-Congress Corp.

3. “The question for decision is whether plaintiff was entitled to the damages to the remainder of his estate resulting from the use to be made of the lands acquired from others....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 78 Ill. App. 2d 284 - DEPARTMENT OF PUB. WKS. & BLDGS. v. Horejs