Hagerman Irrigation Co. v. McMurry’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
7 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably State Ex Rel. Martinez v. City of Las Vegas (2004), State Ex Rel. Erickson v. McLean (1957)
7 district · 46 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 United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co. · Spring Valley Water Works v. Schottler · Atchison v. Peterson · Gutierres v. Albuquerque Land & Irrigation Co. · Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of prior appropriation with application to beneficial use has definitely and wholly superseded the common-law doctrine of riparian rights in many of the jurisdictions in which irrigation is necessary to the growth of crops, and among them is New Mexico.””
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.