Albrecht v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 599 · 1947
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 9 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 220 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Library of Congress v. Shaw (1986), United States v. Virginia Electric & Power Co. (1961)
73 federal appellate · 9 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedOliver v. United States (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 171
Relies on Danforth v. United States · Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States · Muschany v. United States · Jacobs v. United States · United States v. N. Y. Rayon Importing 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 220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'just compensation' in the constitutional sense has been held ... to be fair market value at the time of taking plus 'interest' from that date to the date of payment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Parties, supposedly with due regard to their own interests, bargain between themselves as to compensation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he reasoning on which interest is added to value as a part of `just compensation' in court condemnation proceedings ... is that when a court determines just compensation, it fixes bare value at the time of the taking and adds a sum to compensate for deferred payment of bare value. ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.