United States v. 0.161 Acres of Land’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 1036 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Loudermill v. Dow Chemical Co. (1988), Harris v. General Motors Corp. (2000)
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · In re Vendo Co. · Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Ass'n · Gometz v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he jury is instructed that it is completely free to accept or reject an expert's testimony, and to evaluate the weight given such testimony in light of the reasons the expert supplies for his opinion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An economist is qualified to testify about the market value of property although his valuation methodology is somewhat unique and he relies upon statistics provided by a government agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.