Bathgate v. Irvine’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently March 1974 · most notably 11 Cal. 2d 501 - Rancho Santa Margarita v. Vail (1938), 35 Cal. 2d 303 - Simms v. County of Los Angeles (1950)
2 federal appellate · 65 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 Hargrave v. Cook · Miller v. Highland Ditch Co. · Vernon Irrigation Co. v. City of Los Angeles · Gould v. Stafford · Faulkner v. Hendy
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rights of a riparian proprietor, so far as they relate to any natural stream, exist jure naturae, because his land has by nature the advantage of being washed by the stream.”
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.