Wemple v. Eastham’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Miami Corporation v. State (1936), Boone v. Kingsbury (1928)
48 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 Howard v. Ingersoll · State v. Richardson · State ex rel. Board of Com'rs of Atchafalaya Basin Levee Dist. v. Capdeville · State v. Bayou Johnson Oyster Co. · Amite Gravel & Sand Co. v. Roseland Gravel Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the highest stage that it (the river) usually reaches at any season of the year....”
2 later decisions 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.