Erickson v. Amoth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2013
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Great Basin Grain Co. · Swensen v. Buildings, Inc. · Eisenbarth v. Delp · Hill v. Schultz · McKenney v. Anselmo
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of proving necessity for taking land is upon the condemnor, but he need only prove a reasonable and not an absolute, necessity.... It was then incumbent upon the Ericksons to prove that the alternative means of access were not available to them or that such means of access were not reasonably adequate or sufficient for their purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cordwell v. Smith
How this case has been treated — in progress
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