Davis v. Fry’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1969
12 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 Ogburn v. Connor
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . upon which is a natural depression which receives and holds during the rainy season, surface water which collects there from the natural drainage of quite a large scope of adjacent territory, and from which there is no natural outlet, and beyond which there is no ravine or surface indication of a natural water course, when such depression is full to overflowing. “The depression contains 15 to 20 acres of ground flooded in times of heavy rainfall. The plaintiff in error caused a ditch to be dug so as to drain this depression, and discharge the water therefrom over and onto, defendant’s crop, on the adjoining premises, destroying the same. “The right of such drainage by the plaintiff in error is the point in issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caughlin v. Sheets
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.