147 Ill. App. 3d 755 - Mileur v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2016
11 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 School Board of Nassau County, Florida, Et Al. v. Arline · 108 Ill. 2d 502 - Wheeler v. Caterpillar Tractor Co. · 91 Ill. App. 3d 17 - Coomer v. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. · Peck v. Herrington · 28 Ill. 2d 379 - Beloit Foundry Co. v. Ryan
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.
““such that surface water falling or coming onto one naturally descends upon the other, the owner of the higher (dominant) land has a natural easement in the lower (servient) tract to allow the surface water to flow naturally off the dominant land upon or over the servient land. (Pinkstaff v. Steffy (1905), 216 Ill. 406, 411-12 , 75 N.E. 163 ; Peek v. Herrington (1884), 109 Ill. 611, 619 ; Coomer v. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. (1980), 91 Ill. App. 3d 17, 22 , 414 N.E.2d 865, 869 .) Correspondingly, the owner of the servient land ‘ “must suffer the water to be discharged upon his land and has no right to stop or impede the natural flow of the surface water.” ’ (Geis v. Rohrer (1957), 12 Ill. 2d 133, 136 , 145 N.E.2d 596 quoting Gough v. Goble (1954), 2 Ill. 2d 577, 580 , 119 N.E.2d 252 .) The servient owner ‘cannot, by an embankment or other artificial means, obstruct the water in its natural flow, and thus throw it back upon the upper proprietor.’ Gillham v. Madison County R.R. Co. (1869), 49 Ill. 484, 487 .” (Emphasis added.) Mileur, 147 III. App. 3d at 758, 498 N.E.2d at 583 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.