Horton v. Goodenough’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 21 Cal. 2d 636 - Panos v. Great Western Packing Co. (1943), Todhunter v. Smith (1934)
2 federal appellate · 67 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 Russell v. Place · San Gabriel Valley Country Club v. County of Los Angeles · Lamb v. Reclamation District No. 108 · Simmons v. Winters · Los Angeles Cemetery Ass'n v. City of Los Angeles
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . ‘Putting it conversely, they do not include waters flowing out of a natural watercourse, but which yet were once a part of a stream and have escaped from it, “flood waters,” in other words. . . . Second, one has the right to protect himself against “flood waters,” that is, -waters of the character last described, and for that purpose to obstruct their flow on to his land, and this even though such obstruction causes the water to flow on to the land of another. ... ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`which of them was thus litigated, and upon which the judgment was rendered,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`upon one or more of which the judgment may have passed,'”
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.