Sharp v. Drainage District No. 7’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1963 · most notably 126 Ohio St. 482 - City of Norwood v. Sheen (1933), Wright v. Lake (1929)
32 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 McCoy v. Board of Directors · City Oil Works v. Helena Improvement District No. 1 · Williams v. Memphis, Dallas & Gulf Railroad · Ferrell v. Elkins · Jones v. Board of Mississippi Levee Com'rs
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“takes the case out of the general rule and brings it within one of the well known exceptions, which is that the waters of a stream may not be obstructed by dams or other embankments so as to throw the water back upon the upper proprietors, and thereby damage or destroy entirely the use of their property.” The court further said:”
1 later decision 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.