Mitchell Irr. Dist. v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.2d 964 · 1941
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1978
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Cunningham v. Macon & Brunswick Railroad · State of Louisiana Elliott v. Jumel · Hagood v. Southern · Worcester County Trust Co. v. Riley
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The title to water in the natural streams in Wyoming is in the state but the water is subject to withdrawal for application to irrigation or other beneficial use. In other words, the water is owned by the state subject to appropriation for beneficial use. It has been said that the ownership of the state is subject to a particular trust the trust being the right of appropriation for beneficial use. Willey v. Decker, 11 Wyo. 496 , 73 P. 210 , 100 Am. St.Rep. 939. * * * The state owns title to the water running in the stream, except as it may from time to time be lawfully diverted for application to authorized beneficial use, while the right of the appropriator attaches not to the water while running in the natural channel but to the use of a limited quantity thereof for beneficial use, in pursuance of an appropriation perfected and continued in compliance with the requirements of law. Farm Investment Co. v. Carpenter, 9 Wyo. 110 , 61 P. 258 , 50 L.R.A. 747 , 87 Am.St.Rep. 918 ." (Emphasis added.)”
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.