Caples v. Taliaferro’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Holland v. Fort Pierce Financing & Construction Co. (1946), Watson v. Holland (1944)
7 federal appellate · 24 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 Banks v. Ogden · Brickell v. Trammel · White's Bank of Buffalo v. . Nichols · Smith v. Horn · Haberman v. . Baker
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be regarded as settled that title to all submerged lands whether tide or fresh is held by the states in trust for all the people of the respective states, that such trust is governmental and may not be completely alienated but that in the interest of all the people, the States may grant to individuals limited privileges or rights in such lands.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Holland“[w]here the fee to a street along a river front is in the abutting owner, the title to accretions will be in him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A] riparian owner may separate his uplands from his submerged lands,”
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.