42 U.S.C. § 4602
Section 4602 · Effect upon property acquisition
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 50 court decisions — leading case Commissioner of Transportation v. Rocky Mountain, LLC (2006)
Most recently applied in Kuchle Realty Co. v. Commonwealth (June 2018)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The provisions of section 4651 of this title create no rights or liabilities and shall not affect the validity of any property acquisitions by purchase or condemnation.
(b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as creating in any condemnation proceedings brought under the power of eminent domain, any element of value or of damage not in existence immediately prior to January 2, 1971.