State v. Aitchison’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2022
17 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 Shoemaker v. United States · United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co. · Hairston v. Danville & Western Railway Co. · United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry Co · Leeds v. City of Richmond
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court in the case of State ex rel. McLeod v. District Court, supra, quoted with approval from Lewis on Eminent Domain (3d Ed.) § 371, as follows: `The authority to condemn must be expressly given or necessarily implied. The exercise of the power being against common right, it cannot be implied or inferred from vague or doubtful language, but must be given in express terms or by necessary implication. When the right to exercise the power can only be made out by argument and inference, it does not exist.' All of our decisions have been in accord with the foregoing quotation. State ex rel. McMaster v. District Court, 80 Mont. 228 , 260 P. 134 ; Helena Power Transmission Co. v. Spratt, 35 Mont. 108 , 88 P. 773 , 8 L.R.A. (N.S.) 567, 10 Ann.Cas. 1055.”
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.