United States v. 564.54 Acres of Land’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.2d 983 · 1978
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2000 · most notably Hobson v. Wilson (1984), United States v. 56454 Acres of Land More or Less Monroe and Pike Counties Pennsylvania (1979)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Olson v. United States · Scalza v. United States · United States v. Virginia Electric & Power Co. · Graham v. Hodges · Ogletree v. Ohio
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have the discretion to review instructions sua sponte if the error is fundamental and highly prejudicial or if the instructions are such that the jury is without adequate guidance on a fundamental question and our failure to consider the error would result in a miscarriage of justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where church-owned property is involved, constitutional obstacles present themselves no matter which narrow path we choose to follow. Attempts to supervise the use of the condemnation award will run afoul of the First Amendment’s entanglement proscription. Thus, there is no way to insure that an award premised on use for substitute facilities will not be pocketed. Yet, in addition to offending our sense of fairness, any system of compensation which results in a windfall to the property owner may well violate the constitutional command that the government not aid religion. “But more fundamentally, when the condemned facility belongs to a religious organization, it is the inquiry which is [at] the very heart of the determination that the condemnee is entitled to the cost of substitute facilities which is obnoxious under our constitutional framework. The judge or jury has no right to pass on the ‘benefit’ or the ‘necessity’ to the community of such installations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ne rationale for the substitute facilities measure is to indemnify not only the owner of the condemned facilities, but those who have an interest in the continuing existence of the facilities, in this case, according to the Synod, the general public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.