Reilly v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2012
11 state decisions
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 Griggs v. County of Allegheny Pennsylvania · White's Appeal · Conroy-Prugh Glass Co. v. Commonwealth · Taylor v. Moore · Griggs v. Allegheny County
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Police power should not be confused with that of eminent domain. Police power controls the use of property by the owner, for the public good, its use otherwise .being harmful, while eminent domain and taxation take property for public use. Under eminent domain, compensation is given for property taken, injured or destroyed, while under the police power no payment is made for a diminution in use, even though it amounts to an actual taking or destruction of property- No matter how seemingly complete our scheme of private ownership may ibe under our system of government, all property is held in subordination of the right of its reasonable regulation by the government clearly necessary to preserve the health, safety, or morals of the people. Obedience to such regulation is not taking property without due process; that clause does not qualify the police power. ’ ’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The appell[ant]s purchased a large tract of undeveloped land in Dennison Township, Luzerne County in 1961. In 1964, the County Board of Commissioners enacted a zoning ordinance under which the appellant]s’ land was zoned Conservation or C-l which essentially permitted uses which would not be discordant with the rural character of the area. Beginning in 1962, however, and continuing at least until 1967, the Department of Forests and Waters (now part of DEB) conducted various studies of the area around the property in connection with a proposed state park project to be known as the Nescopeck State Park. In June 1967, and at the request of the appellant] s, the Luzerne County Commissioners rezoned their property from C-l to S-l or Suburban Besidence which permitted residential development of the property. When the Department of Forests and Waters learned of this rezoning, its director began correspondence with the Luzerne County Becreation and Parks Commission indicating that the rezoning of the appell[ant]s’ property imperiled the park project because of the possible escalation of land values caused by the rezoning. Concerned with’ the possible loss of the state park project, the County Commissioners rezoned the appell[ant]s’ property back to C-l on November 15,1967. In June 1973, the appell[ant]s filed a petition for the appointment of a board of view pursuant to Section 502(e) of the Eminent Domain Code, [Act of June 22, 1964, P.L. 84, Special Sess., as amended,] 26 P.S. §l-5”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.