Dohany v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 362 · 1930
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 25 district · 318 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 609 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Burnet v. Sanford & Brooks Co. (1931)
82 federal appellate · 25 district · 318 state decisions — followed in 42 states
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 Bauman v. Ross · Joslin Mfg Co v. City of Providence · Rindge Co v. Los Angeles County Rindge Co · Augustus Reetz v. People of the State of Michigan
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 609 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Attorneys' fees and expenses are not embraced within just compensation for land taken by eminent domain.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The due process clause does not guarantee to the citizen of a state any particular form or method of state procedure .... Its requirements are satisfied if he has reasonable notice and reasonable opportunity to be heard and to present his claim or defense; due regard being had to the nature of the proceedings and the character of the rights which may be affected by it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We need not inquire whether, under the peculiar provisions of the Michigan statutes, the proposed taking of appellant's land is for highway or railway purposes. It is enough that, although the land is to be used as a right of way for a railroad, its acquisition is so essentially a part of the project for improving a public highway as to be for a public use. Dohany v. Rogers, 281 U.S. 362, 366 , 50 S.Ct. 299, 301 , 74 L.Ed. 904, 910 (1930).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.