United States v. Thayer-West Point Hotel Co.’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 585 · 1947
Citation profile
129 federal appellate · 26 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 420 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations (1974), United States v. N. Y. Rayon Importing Co. (1947)
129 federal appellate · 26 district · 23 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
Relies on Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States · United States v. North American Transportation & Trading Co. · Brooks-Scanlon Corporation v. United States · United States v. Reading 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 420 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the absence of constitutional connotations, “just compensation” is not a term of art so far as interest is concerned. The inclusion or exclusion of interest depends upon other contractual provisions, the intention of the parties and the circumstances surrounding the use of the term.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Said lease * * * shall also provide for just compensation to the lessees for the construction of said hotel, appurtenances, and equipment, to be paid to said lessees at the termination of said lease.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blake v. Califano
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.