13 Utah 2d 45 - Stubbs v. Ercanbrack’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2021
9 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 McNaughton v. Eaton · 9 Utah 2d 307 - N. M. Long & Co. v. Cannon-Papanikolas Construction Co. · 9 Utah 2d 324 - Current Creek Irrigation Co. v. Andrews
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But after the irrigation water is used and becomes commingled with the waters in the natural water table it has lost its identity as irrigation water and is no longer owned by the [irrigators] as such. Such waters in the natural water table are and always have been subject to appropriation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the owners of water rights can be deprived of them by someone digging into and usurping this water at its source, then water rights become tenuous indeed, if not quite meaningless.”
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.