Fairfield Gardens, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
306 F.2d 167 · 1962
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. Acres of Land More or Less in County of Monroe State of R (1979), United States v. Hickey (1966)
26 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1743 · 12 U.S.C. § 1748B · 12 U.S.C. § 1748D · 42 U.S.C. § 1594A
Relies on Olson v. United States · Omnia Commercial Co. v. United States · Boston Chamber of Commerce v. City of Boston · United States v. Commodities Trading Corp. · United States v. John J. Felin & Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the field of real estate valuation it has long been the rule that sales of other property are not admissible unless the other property is comparable. And comparability, while it does not mean identity, because each parcel of real property differs from every other parcel, does mean, at the very least, similarity in many respects.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the primary responsibility of the trial court to determine whether reproduction cost evidence should be admitted as an aid to valuation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable, prudent person would reproduce the project, on the valuation date, for the amount given as reproduction cost.”
1 later decision 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.