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Snell v. Ruppert’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
September 2024
most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Leo Sheep Co. v. United States (1979), McGuire v. McGuire (1980)

38 state decisions

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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 Stewart v. Salamon · Gore v. Bingaman · Allen v. Cal. Mut. Bldg & Loan Ass'n · Lo Sasso v. Braun · Roberts 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Private property shall not be taken for private use unless by consent of the owner, except for private ways of necessity, and for reservoirs, drains, flumes or ditches on or across the lands of others for agricultural, mining, milling, domestic or sanitary purposes, nor in any case without due compensation.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Bush v. Duff · Reaves v. Riley
  2. “"Any person whose land has no outlet to, nor connection with a public road, may apply in writing to the board of county commissioners of his county for a private road * * *.””
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Bush v. Duff · Walton v. Dana
  3. “Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public or private use without just compensation.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Bush v. Duff · Goodman v. Voss

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.