Dowlen v. Crowley’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 1950
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kauffman v. Griesemer · International Land Co. v. Marshall · Wilhelm v. . Burleyson · Avery v. . Empire Woolen Company · Harding v. Whitney
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A riparian proprietor has no right to construct by dyke, dam, or otherwise, anything which in time of ordinary flood will throw the water in larger volume on the lands of another so as to overflow and injure them, and when flood waters are diverted by one landowner to the land of another, that other has the right to repel it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rainey v. Cleveland““Equity will refuse to lend its aid in any measure to one seeking its active interposition who has been guilty of any unlawful or inequitable conduct in the matter with relation to which he seeks relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rainey v. Cleveland
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.