severance damage
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 317 U.S. 369 - United States v. Miller · 1943Most cited · 2,772 citing opinions
If only a portion of a single tract is taken the owner's compensation for that taking includes any element of value arising out of the relation of the part taken to the entire tract. Such damage is often, though somewhat loosely, spoken of as severance damage.
How often courts cite the case defining “severance damage”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “severance damage” — 2,771 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.