Thompson v. McDougal’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1949
4 district · 6 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 Broadway Manufacturing Co. v. Leavenworth Terminal Railway & Bridge Co. · Parker v. City of Atchison · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Keys · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Herman · Singleton v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rights and limitations of rights of landowners in dealing with flood-waters were not changed, nor attempted to be changed, by chapter 175 of the Laws of 1911 (Gen. Stat. 1915, §§ 4050-4052), unless, indeed, they have been somewhat enlarged by section 2 of the act: (Quoting statute). “To regard floodwaters escaping from a river as surface water led to little or no confusion before the enactment of 1911, but it may sometimes do so now.” (p. 376.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . When those cases were decided, the law of this state permitted a lower landowner to repel surface waters; and while it forbade, as it still does, any landowner to dike against the natural flow of flood waters to the detriment of others, it did permit a landowner, with due regard to the rights of others, to build dikes and barriers to protect his property from overflow and waste. . . .” (p. 375.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horn v. Seeger
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.