Lee v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1986
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Snowden v. Wilas · Rhodes v. Otis · Russell v. Hubbard · Lane v. Miller · Woodbury v. Parshley
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle that expending- money or labor in consequence of a license to divert a water course or use a water power in a particular way has the effect of turning such a license into an agreement that will he enforced in equity has been frequently announced by tbe courts. In all such cases the execution of the parol license supplies the place of a writing, aud takes the ease out of the statute of frauds,” — citing a number of cases.”
2 later decisions 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.