Engelhardt v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Southall v. Stricos Corporation (1963), 395 So. 2d 65 - Ex Parte Carter (1981)
52 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 State Docks Commission v. Barnes · Finnell v. Pitts · East & West Railroad Co. of Alabama v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad · Folmar v. Brantley · Hargett v. Franklin County
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.
“"Whenever any person, corporation or authority vested with the power of eminent domain, undertakes to exercise such power, by appropriating private property to its own use or benefit, without first complying with the constitution, a court of equity has jurisdiction to enjoin such undertaking, until compensation has been first paid to the owner . . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . no sort of rationale can bring the case within the ban of § 14 of our constitution, prohibiting suits against the State or its agencies.”
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.