Stokes v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Morningstar Water Users Ass'n v. New Mexico Public Utility Commission (1995), Montgomery v. Lomos Altos, Inc. (2006)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Tapia v. Panhandle Steel Erectors Company · Toltec International, Inc. v. Village of Ruidoso · Spencer v. Bliss · State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. Lewis · Application of Brown
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]ew withdrawals which cause minimal acceleration in the rate of saltwater intrusion or a minimal increase in salinity do not constitute impairment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bounds v. State“special knowledge and experience of state agencies should be accorded deference”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o impairment does not necessarily mean no change in conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.