Montgomery v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2015
13 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 2 Ill. 2d 577 - Gough v. Goble · Daum v. Cooper · 7 Ill. 2d 496 - Gilbert v. Chicago Title & Trust Co. · 16 Ill. 2d 72 - County of Cook v. Glasstex Co. · Beechley v. Harms
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The owner of land may change the course of a natural stream within the limits of his own land if, before the new channel leaves his land, he restores it to the original channel; provided, of course, that in making the change he does not cast upon the lands of an adjoining proprietor water which did not in the natural course of drainage flow upon such adjoining premises.” Montgomery v. Downey (1959), 17 Ill. 2d 451, 461 , 162 N.E.2d 6, 12 .”
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.