State v. Longshore’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shively v. Bowlby · Merrit Martin v. William C Waddell · Phillips Petroleum Company v. Mississippi US · 119 Wash. 2d 251 - Hizey v. Carpenter · Isaac Smith Owner of the Sloop Volant v. The State of Maryland
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clams ordinarily live in the soil under the waters, and not within the waters.... They therefore, in a very material sense, belong with the land. When taken they must be wrenched from their beds, made well down in the soil itself. It must follow therefore that, if the state has authority to invest one with the private ownership of the tide lands, such investiture must carry with it the right to exercise dominion and ownership over what is upon the land, and especially over things so closely related to the soil as clams.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The evidence presented in a criminal trial is legally sufficient to support a guilty verdict if any rational trier of fact, viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the state, could find the essential elements of the charged crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ceglowski · State v. Huynh“insufficiency of the proof of a material element of the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ceglowski · State v. Huynh
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.