Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In ordinary cases coming under the general jurisdiction of the court where private property is taken for public use, an action on the implied contract can be maintained. In cases of implied contract, it was established by the decision in the Supreme Court in Salo-mon’s Case ( 19 Wall., p. 17 [ 22 L.Ed. 46 ]) that where private property was delivered to an officer for public use a contract will be implied though the property was not used, and the Government received no benefit from it. As a general principle, it may be said that where private property is taken for public use under conditions which will authorize a court to hold it a case of implied contract, the title passes to the Government, eo instanti, and it is no concern of the owner as to what use or purpose the Government puts it or whether the property perishes in its hands.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 106 F. Supp. 191 - Etlimar Societe Anonyme v. United States