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160 U.S. 452 · 1896

Citation profile

149
cited by 149 later decisions
15
cited 15 times by the Supreme Court
9
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 16 district · 70 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 149 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson (1912), United States v. Lineas Winans (1905)

13 federal appellate · 16 district · 70 state decisions

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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 Shively v. Bowlby · Hardin v. Jordan · Pumpelly v. Green Bay Co. · Missouri v. Lewis · Barney v. Keokuk

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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Servitudes imposed for the public or common utility, relate to the space which is to be left for the public use by the adjacent proprietors on the shores of navigable rivers, and for the making and repairing of levees, roads and other public or common works. All that relates to this kind of servitude is determined by laws or particular regulations.””
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Maynard v. United States through United States Corps of Engineers · 414 So. 2d 805 - Terrebonne v. SOUTH LOUISIANA TIDAL WATER CONTROL LEVEE DIST.
  2. ““Private property shall not be taken nor damaged for public purposes without just and adequate compensation being first paid.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Louisiana Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Children v. Board of Levee Com'rs
  3. “The subject-matter of such rights and regulations falls within the control of the states . . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Edwin Virgin Sr

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.