State v. Frost’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A condemning authority has the right to dismiss as to a portion of the land sought to be condemned or to relinquish rights originally sought by condemnation when this may be done without injury to the landowner_ [Cites omitted.] The law is clear that the condemnor has the right to amend its pleadings and take less.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Board of Regents of the University of Houston System v. FKM Partnership, Ltd. · Zucht v. City of San Antonio

2. “Commission, by proper order entered in its minutes, is hereby authorized and empowered: (a). To designate any existing or proposed State Highway, of the Designated State Highway System, or any part thereof, as a Controlled Access Highway; (b). To deny access to or from any State Highway, presently or hereafter designated as such, whether existing, presently being constructed, or hereafter constructed, which may be hereafter duly designated as a Controlled Access Highway, from or to any lands, public, or private, adjacent thereto, and from or to any streets, roads, alleys, highways or any other public or private ways intersecting any such Controlled Access Highway, except at specific points designated by the State Highway Commission; and to close any such public or private way at or near its point of intersection with any such Controlled Access Highway; (c). To designate points upon any designated Controlled Access Highway, or any part of any such highway, at which access to or from such Controlled Access Highway shall be permitted, whether such Controlled Access Highway includes any existing State Highway or one hereafter constructed and so designated; (d). To control, restrict, and determine the type and extent of access to be permitted at any such designated point of access; (e). To erect appropriate protective devices to preserve the utility, integrity, and use of such designated Controlled Access Highway; and, (f). To modify or repeal any order entered pursuant to the pow”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Taylor

3. “A condemnor should not be required to take more land or rights in lands than it needs nor secure unnecessary rights and privileges and the condemnor should be allowed to abandon such unnecessary lands or rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Board of Regents of the University of Houston System v. FKM Partnership, Ltd.