Armstrong v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
366 federal appellate · 116 district · 532 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,125 later decisions (94 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City (1978), Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)
366 federal appellate · 116 district · 532 state decisions — followed in 38 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
Relies on Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · United States v. Causby · Rodriguez v. New York · United States v. General Motors Corp.
Cited together with Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. · Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto 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 2,125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole.”
88 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Before the liens were destroyed, the lienholders admittedly had compensable property. Immediately afterwards, they had none. This was not because their property vanished into thin air. It was because the Government for its own advantage destroyed the value of the liens.”
12 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.