308 So. 2d 774 - State v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Although La.R.S. 48:453 provides that, in quick-taking expropriations, severance damages should be determined as of the date of the trial, this provision (in the light of the initial statutory scheme that such damages be determined after construction of the improvement is accepted, La.R.S. 48:451(1), see 26 La.L.Rev. 102-03 (1965)) ‘ * * * was statutorily intended to specify that the damages the remainder suffers should be reduced by special benefits which result to it from the completion of the highway construction, not to deprive the landowner of compensation for damages sustained by his tract because of any general increase in the value of land between the taking and the trial.’ ” 308 So.2d at 776 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 423 So. 2d 721 - State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Harris

2. ““Severance damages are ordinarily calculated as the difference between the market value of the remaining property immediately before and immediately after the taking. State, Department of Highways v. Central Realty Investment Company,- 238 La. 965 , 117 So.2d 261 (I960).” 284 So.2d at 766 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 423 So. 2d 721 - State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Harris