Fleming v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2013
12 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 Heiner v. Donnan · Pacific Live Stock Co. v. Lewis · People v. Buckley · Miller & Lux Inc. v. Secara · Tulare Water Co. v. State Water Commission
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In case suit is brought in any court of competent jurisdiction for determination of rights to water or the use of water, ... the court may, in its discretion, refer such a suit to the state water commission for investigation of and report upon any one or more or all of the physical facts involved, in which event, said commission may, in its discretion, base its report solely upon its own investigation or investigations or in addition thereto may hold a hearing or hearings and take testimony and the report filed by the commission upon such a reference for investigation by it shall be prima facie evidence of the physical facts therein found. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all of the pertinent constitutional safeguards were observed by the legislature in enacting the provisions of section 24. ...”
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.