Berman v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
687 federal appellate · 153 district · 944 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,447 later decisions (82 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Gault (1967), Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)
687 federal appellate · 153 district · 944 state decisions — followed in 49 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253
Relies on Block v. Hirsh · Shoemaker v. United States · Noble State Bank v. Haskell · United States v. Carmack
Cited together with Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas · United States Tennessee Valley Authority v. Welch Same · Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff · United States v. Carmack
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 2,447 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not for the courts to oversee the choice of the boundary line nor to sit in review on the size of a particular project area. Once the question of the public purpose has been decided, the amount and character of land to be taken for the project and the need for a particular tract to complete the integrated plan rests in the discretion of the legislative branch.”
162 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To take for the purpose of ridding the area of slums is one thing; it is quite another, the argument goes, to take a man's property merely to develop a better balanced, more attractive community.”
2 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.