Halstead v. Vandalia Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably 241 Mo. App. 759 - Empire District Electric Co. v. Johnston (1954), State v. Hamer (1936)
27 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 Deal v. State · Trittipo v. Beaver · Taylor v. Wootan · Goodwine v. Evans · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Roberts
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though in the present case the appraiser’s report was not admitted in evidence, the amount of the appraisement and some of the reasons influencing the fixing of that amount were brought in by the testimony of the appraisers, and this was error. However, the evidence was brought out by questions which were allowed, as the court informed counsel and the jury at the time, for the purpose of fixing the basis upon which the witnesses fixed their judgment of the value of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hamer““ ‘And if the jury finds from any evidence that any witness who has given his opinion as to the market value of the property taken, has based such opinion in part upon the value of such property to the defendants for an intended specific future use, such opinion should be disregarded so far as it is so based upon the value for an intended specific future use.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hamer“"The entire purpose of the {exception to the award] was to obtain a reconsideration of the identical question submitted to and determined by the appraisers chosen for the purpose of fixing the damages to appellants [caused by the taking of] the land and improvements taken by appel-lee. The case, therefore, was to be tried de novo .."”
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.