Norfleet v. Cromwell’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2008
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 St. Andrew's Lutheran Church's Appeal · Tyler v. Beacher
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant takes higher ground, and contends that the act of 1795 was unconstitutional, because it took his property for a mere private purpose . It is admitted that that cannot be lawfully done, and the only question on this point is as to the character of the purpose: whether it was to the benefit of one or of a limited number of individuals only, or of such general and public utility as justifies a State in the exercise of its power of eminent domain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanderlin v. . Luken
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.