State v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Miami Corporation v. State (1936), Gulf Oil Corporation v. State Mineral Board (1975)
68 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 McGilvra v. Ross · Storer v. Freeman · Howard v. Ingersoll · Ellis v. Prevost · 1 La. Ann. 435 - Egerton v. Third Municipality of New Orleans
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The accretions, which are formed,successively and imperceptibly to any soil situated on the shore of a river or other stream, are called alluvion. “The alluvion belongs to the owner of the soil situated on the edge of the water, whether it be a river or stream, and whether the same be navigable or not, who is bound to leave public that portion of the bank which is required by law for the public use.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The banks of a river or stream are understood to be that which contains it in its ordinary state of high water; for the nature of the banks does not change, although for some cause they may be overflowed for a time. “Nevertheless on the borders of the Mississippi and other navigable streams, where there are levees, established according to law, the levees shall form the banks.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“growth of willows, cottonwoods, and cockle burrs.”
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.