United States v. Cors’s Empirical Analysis
337 U.S. 325 · 1949
Citation profile
177 federal appellate · 6 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 456 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably United States v. Virginia Electric & Power Co. (1961), United States v. Reynolds (1970)
177 federal appellate · 6 district · 84 state decisions — followed in 17 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1255
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · United States v. Miller · Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States · Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles · United States ex rel. Tennessee Valley Authority v. Powelson
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 456 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as in the case of land included in a proposed project of the government, the enhanced value reflects speculation as to what the government can be compelled to pay. That is a hold-up value, not a fair market value. That is a value which the government itself created and hence in fairness should not be required to pay.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has been careful not to reduce the concept of 'just compensation' to a formula.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The special value to the condemner as distinguished from others who may or may not possess the power to condemn has long been excluded as an element of market 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.