Egan v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
165 U.S. 188 · 1897
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1972 · most notably Chicago Co v. City of Chicago (1897), Bement Sons v. National Harrow Company (1902)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 Stanley v. Schwalby · Kirby v. Tallmadge · Eustis v. Bolles · Dower v. Richards
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Between these two points it is nothing but a high-water outlet, going dry •every summer at many places, choked with rafts and filled with sand, reefs, etc. It has no channel. In various localities it spreads out into shallow lakes and over a wide expanse of country, and is susceptible of being made navigable just as a ditch would be if it were dug deep and wide enough and kept •supplied with a sufficiency of water.””
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.