Fox v. Cincinnati’s Empirical Analysis
104 U.S. 783 · 1881
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1987 · most notably O'Bannon v. Town Court Nursing Center (1980), Reichelderfer v. Quinn (1932)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 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.
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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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the right to abandon followed necessarily from the right to build. . . . Every lessee of power took his lease and put up his improvements with full notice of the reserved right of the State to discontinue its canal and stop his supply of water.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The use of the water for hydraulic purposes is but an incident to the principal object for which the canal was built, to wit, navigation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether there is anything in the lease . . . which prevents the State from making such an abandonment.”
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.