McCarthy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1999
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.
Relationships
Relies on Yates v. Milwaukee · Diedrich v. Northwestern Union Railway Co. · Priewe v. Wisconsin State Land & Improvement Co. · Delaplaine v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Cohn v. Wausau Boom 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Riparian rights are not common to the citizens at large, but exist as incidents to the right of the soil itself adjacent to the water. In such ownership they have their origin. They may and do exist, [though] the fee in the bed of the river or lake be in the state.' . . .”
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.