Foster v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2012
4 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 Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Sherrod · Williams v. Wedding · United States v. 53¼ Acres of Land · Barker v. Lannert · 41 F. Supp. 809 - United States v. Certain Land in City of St. Louis, Mo.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he risk of loss of overpayment to the owner of a particular interest must fall on the condemnor. The problem is created by the condemnor’s election to take possession of the property being condemned prior to a final determination of just compensation. Since the condem-nor is required to pay the commissioners’ award prior to final judgment only as a means of obtaining immediate possession, the risk of loss should fall upon the condemnor rather than the other owners who had no choice in the matter.”
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.