Mitchell v. Bain’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Railroad v. Tutt (1907), Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Johnson (1910)
64 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 Weis v. City of Madison · McArthur v. Carrie's Adm'r · Taylor v. Fickas · Dyer v. Eldridge · Nowlin v. Whipple
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even surface-water becomes a natural watercourse at the point where it begins to form a reasonably well-defined channel, with bed and banks, or sides and current, although the stream itself may be very small, and the water may not flow continuously. Gould, Waters, § 263; Churchill v. Lauer, 84 Cal. 233 , 24 Pac. 107 .” (Page 616.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rait v. Furrow
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.