Caldwell v. Gore’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1975
3 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 St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Magness · Taylor v. Rudy · Morrow v. Merrick · Stout Lumber Company v. Reynolds · Jackson v. Keller
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a servitude due by the estate situat ed below to receive the waters which run naturally from the estate situated above, provided the industry of man has not been used to create that servitude. “The proprietor below is not at liberty to raise any dam, or to maloe any other work, to. prevent tlds running of the water. “The proprietor above eon do nothing whereby the natural servitude due by the estate below may be rendered more burdensome.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Gore
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.