Big Eagle v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 1980
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shoshone Tribe of Indians v. United States · Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States · United States v. Alcea Band · Martin v. Davis · Vernaci v. Louisiana
Most-quoted passages
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“The established rule is that the taking of property by the United States in the expertion of its power of eminent domain implies a promise to pay just compensation, i.e., value at the time of the taking plus an amount sufficient to produce the full equivalent of that value paid contemporaneously with the taking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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