United States v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 28 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 432 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Bennis v. Michigan (1996), San Diego Gas & Electric Co. v. City of San Diego (1981)
74 federal appellate · 28 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 18 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. Fuller (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Miller · Olson v. United States · United States ex rel. Tennessee Valley Authority v. Powelson · Hatahley v. United States · United States v. Virginia Electric & 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 432 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the general principle that the Government as condemnor may not be required to compensate a condemnee for elements of value that the Government has created, or that it might have destroyed under the exercise of governmental authority other than the power of eminent domain.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he constitutional requirement of just compensation derives as much content from the basic equitable principles of fairness, as it does from technical concepts of property law.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts have had to adopt working rules in order to do substantial justice in eminent domain proceedings.”
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.