Kuiper v. Lundvall’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2003
18 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 Farm Investment Co. v. Carpenter · Fellhauer v. People · Hall v. Kuiper · Larrick v. North Kiowa Bijou Management District · People v. Colorado Title & Trust Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The permit should be considered valid to irrigate only land specified thereon. For the purposes of administration, if the applicant desires to irrigate land other than that specified in the permit, he should apply to the commission and district board for approval of the same. Approval may be given provided that there is no increase in the amount of water appropriated or in the number of acres irrigated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the waters of a natural stream ... in the unconsolidated alluvial aquifer of sand, gravel, and other sedimentary materials and all other waters hydraulically connected thereto which can influence the rate or direction of movement of the water in that alluvial aquifer or natural stream.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We hold that as to the water taking over a century to reach the stream, the tributary character is de minimus and that this is not a part of the surface stream as contemplated by our Constitution.”
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.