United States v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
184 federal appellate · 24 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 607 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Kaiser Aetna v. United States (1979), Andrus v. Allard (1979)
184 federal appellate · 24 district · 117 state decisions — followed in 24 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
reviewedUnited States v. 2979.72 Acres of Land, More or Less, in the County of Halifax, Virginia, Olivevaughan Williams, and Unknown Owners (Tract Ff-3100e) (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 797 (§ 4 of the Federal Power Act of 1920)
Relies on United States v. Miller · Olson v. United States · Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States · United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power 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 607 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because this expression, not commonly used in ordinary language, could easily be misinterpreted by a jury, we think avoiding it is desirable 1 The Supreme Court has stated: The guiding principle of just compensation is reimbursement to the owner for the property interest taken.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . is the privilege to appropriate without compensation which attaches to the exercise of the”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no weight should be given to the prospect of governmental appropriation.”
7 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.