Hurley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Colman v. Utah State Land Board (1990), Rupert v. City of Rapid City (2013)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 65 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 Great Northern Ry Co v. Sunburst Oil & Refining Co · David Kawananakoa v. Ellen Albertina Polyblank · Langford v. United States · Hendrickson v. State · Darnall v. State
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[The state] cannot, under the guise of the police power, impose unreasonable or arbitrary regulations which go beyond that power, and in effect deprive a person of his property within the purview of the law of eminent domain, as by depriving the owner of all profitable use of the property not per se injurious or pernicious, restricting the lawful uses to which the property can be put and destroying its value, permanently so restricting the use of the property that it cannot be used for any reasonable purpose, or completely destroying the beneficial interest of the owner."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'a landowner may claim compensation for the destruction or disturbance of easements of light and air, and of accessibility, or of such other intangible rights ....'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`if the consequential injury is peculiar to the owner's land and not of a kind suffered by the public as a whole.'”
3 later decisions 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.