German v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Emerson College v. City of Boston · Flynn v. City of Cambridge · Opinion of the Justices to the House of Representatives
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding whether governmental conduct results in a “taking,” we focus on both the character of the action and the extent of the interference with property rights . . . Government action does not constitute a ‘taking’ if the plaintiff does not have a property right in the affected property . . . [T]he government is not required to compensate an individual for denying him the right to use that which he has never owned.”
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.