Amory v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably State v. Johnson (1972), State v. McDonald (1960)
2 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 14 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 United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · Bauman v. Ross · State of Kansas v. State of Colorado · United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co. · State of Connecticut v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sale to one having the power either to purchase or to take by eminent domain is not for that reason alone to be excluded . . . . [but] must be scrutinized more closely than one to a party not possessing that power, but if found to be free and voluntary there is no reason why it should be treated differently from one made to such a party.”
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.