Martin v. Burr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The right of defendants in error, or of those under whom they claim, to maintain a suit to quiet their riparian rights, and to prevent wrongful interference therewith, accrued whenever upper riparian proprietors diverted water, for irrigation or for locomotives, to such an extent as to deprive defendants in error or those under whom they claim of water for domestic use, to their substantial injury. Until defendants in error or those under whom they claim suffered substantial injury, no right of action in their favor accrued. The action became barred four years after the accrual of the right to bring same.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Boyd v. Motl

2. ““The law authorizes the presumption of a grant from the enjoyment of an incorporeal right which affects the lands of others where such enjoyment has been, for the whole prescriptive period, adverse, peaceable, and continuous, with actual or constructive notice to the persons whose rights are invaded.” (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Boyd v. Motl