St. Clair County v. Bukacek’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Atlanta Life Insurance Company v. Stanley (1964), State v. Barnhill (1967)
61 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 United States v. Miller · San Diego Land & Town Co. v. Neale · McLaney v. Turner · Smith v. State Highway Commission · Southern Electric Generating Co. v. Leibacher
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" ' " 'The overwhelming weight of authority is that the owner of land abutting on a street or highway has a private right in such street or highway, distinct from that of the public, which cannot be taken or materially interfered with without just compensation. Access to the highway is one of these private rights and is a property right, and the interference with the right of access of an abutting owner is an element of damage.' " ' "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Replies in kind do not amount to reversible error. . . . Statements or argument of counsel which are provoked or produced by statements or arguments of opposing counsel can furnish no ground for complaint or corrective action."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In Blount County v. Campbell, 268 Ala. 548 , 109 So.2d 678, 682 , the new controlled access highway went through his property where no highway had ever been. His access rights to this new highway were condemned. His property did not abut on the old highway but one of the roads to the old highway was sealed off. We held that the taking of the land, the closing of one of the roads to the old highway, his loss of access to his remaining property, and the "inconvenience to the remaining tract resulting from the condemnation' were circumstances to be considered by the jury." (Emphasis Supplied.) St. Clair County v. Bukacek, 272 Ala. 323, 327 , 131 So.2d 683, 687 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McClendon v. State
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.