Hession Condemnation Case’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Troiano v. Colorado Department of Highways (1969), Truck Terminal Realty Co. v. Commonwealth (1979)
3 federal appellate · 71 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 Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · Griggs v. County of Allegheny Pennsylvania · Breinig v. Allegheny County · Wolf v. Department of Highways · 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[t]he right of ingress or egress to or from one’s property [does not] include any right in and to the existing public traffic on the highway, or any right to have such traffic pass by one’s abutting property. The reason is that all traffic on public highways is controlled by the police power of the State, and what the police power may give an abutting property owner in the way of traffic on the highway it may take away, and by any such diversion of traffic the State and any of its agencies are not liable for any decrease in property values by reason of such diversion of traffic, because such damages are ‘damnum absque injuria,’ or damage without legal injury. . . .’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All objections, other than to the amount of the award, raised by the ’appeal shall 'be determined by the count preliminarily. The court may confirm, modify, change the report or refer it back to the same or other viewers. A decree confirming, modifying or changing the report shall constitute a final order. (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In essence, appellees base their claim on a belief that the change in the traffic pattern caused by the construction of the expressway and the concomitant decrease in the value of their land as a business property is compensable; they urge this Court to distinguish between properties used for business purposes and those employed as residences and contend that business establishments do have a compen-sable interest in the traffic pattern existing before a street has been vacated. This argument was considered and expressly rejected in Wolf v. Department of Highways, 422 Pa. 34 , 220 A.2d 868 (1966).””
1 later decision 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.