State v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Exxon Pipeline Co. v. Zwahr (2002), Simi Investment Company Inc v. Harris County Texas - (2000)
47 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 State v. Carpenter · Bacich v. Board of Control · Muhlker v. New York & Harlem Railroad · City of San Antonio v. Pigeonhole Parking of Texas, Inc. · DuPuy v. City of Waco
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case, it is beyond dispute that the land being condemned had, at the time of the taking, a significantly higher per acre market value than the land not being condemned which lay further from the highway. The State’s theory is that since the frontage of the highway has merely moved over to the remaining land of respondents, thereby increasing the value of the newly abutting land, in effect, the State has only condemned a composite 14.9456 acres of the whole tract. We cannot agree with this theory. Such post-condemnation increase in value of the respondents’ remaining land may occur, but the conclusion is inescapable that such appraisal would result in offsetting the estimated enhanced value of the remainder after the condemnation against the market value of the part taken at the time of the condemnation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. State“the weight of authority seems to be that the owner of the remaining portions of the tract from which the condemned strip is taken has a right of access to the highway, unless, of course, the judgment of condemnation indicates in some way that that right is being taken.” State v. Meyer, 403 S.W.2d 366 , 372 n. 1 (Tex.1966) (quoting Dan Moody, Jr., Condemnation of Land for Highway or Expressway, 33 Tex. L.Rev. 357, 366-67 (1955)). However, the article concludes that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Carson v. State“It is well settled that abutting property owners . . . have certain property rights in existing streets and highways in addition to their right in common with the general public to use them. Generally, the most important of these private rights is the access to and from the highway or street.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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