31 N.C. App. 431 - State v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. · 86 Cal. App. 2d 844 - Bartholomew v. Staheli · 16 N.C. App. 339 - State v. Bellar · United States v. Mallery · Mayor, Aldermen & Commonalty of New York v. Lent
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The underlying rationale of this rule is that property owned by the government is held in trust for the people and that the intentional or negligent acts of the agents of the government should not serve to deny the people of the benefits and enjoyment of `their' property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“title to any such property may not be forfeited through the oversight, carelessness, negligence, or even intentional conduct of any of the agents of the government. . . . This legal principle applies to government land , personal property or public records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a well settled principle of law that title to government property may pass only in the manner prescribed by the duly constituted legislative body. . . .”
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.