Lamb v. Schottler’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1939
2 district · 13 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 People ex rel. Fountain v. Board of Supervisors · Fox v. Western Pac. R.R. · San Mateo Waterworks v. Sharpstein · Williams v. County Commissioners · Tivey v. People ex rel. Townsend North
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have been no taking, under conditions which, as already stated, preclude the commission of a trespass.— Until the price has been ascertained, the government is not in a position to close the bargain; and when it is ascertained, if the sum is not satisfactory, the government may ' withdraw. The government is under no obligation to take the land if the terms when ascertained are not satisfactory.' (Fox. v. W. P. R. R. Co., 31 Cal. 538 .) We know.of no method by which the government could have expressed its dissatisfaction with the price fixed upon the Laguna de la Merced more plainly and positively than by the repeal of the act which provided for its acquisition — and that,- too, before any step subsequent to the ascertainment of the price had been taken. It is obvious that the public had acquired no new right under .these proceedings before the repeal of the act, and quite as clear that the owners of the property had not.”
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.