Shurtleff v. Salt Lake City’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1996
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 In re Evans · Big Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Co. v. Shurtliff · Bingham & G. Ry. Co. v. North Utah Mining Co. of Bingham · La Bee v. Smith
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Let us assume that plaintiffs’ land and water rights were located in a small farming community wherein there was a surplusage of water for culinary purposes. Suppose in that locality their water rights were destroyed in the construction of a public power dam. It would be reasonable to believe that under such assumed circumstances there would be no demand upon the market for plaintiffs’ water rights for culinary purposes; and experts called upon that question would probably so testify. In the present case, however, their property is located near a large city. The city has taken the water for culinary purposes. Is it not reasonable to believe that experts called upon the question here would testify that there is a demand for those water rights for culinary purposes? Would not a prospective purchaser of plaintiffs’ property be influenced by the fact that such a demand by the city may arise as has arisen in this case? In other words, if there is a demand on the market for those water rights, because those who make the demand think the rights can be put to more valuable use and are therefore willing to pay more for them, the owner is entitled to the benefit of that demand even though his own use of the rights may be limited.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. This Court has held that just compensation for property taken for public use means compensation in money; that it would make no difference how valuable the property that was contemplated as a substitute is, it could not be substituted in lieu of money, against the wishes of the condemnee. [Citation.] 13”
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.