Card v. Nickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1999
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Johnson v. Weare · Lockwood Co. v. Lawrence · Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Water District v. Maine Turnpike Authority · Rogers v. Portland & Brunswick Street Railway · Martin v. Maine Central Railroad
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.
“had no knowledge of the true state of facts, and ... did not have the same means of ascertaining the truth as did the other party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To constitute a water course, it must appear that the water usually flows in a particular direction; and by a regular channel, having a bed with banks and sides; and (usually) discharging itself into some other body or stream of water. It may sometimes be dry. It need not flow continuously; but it must have a well defined and substantial existence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maddocks v. Giles
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.