Pabst v. Finmand’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably 67 Cal. 2d 132 - Joslin v. Marin Municipal Water District (1967), City of Pasadena v. City of Alhambra (1949)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 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 Lux v. Haggin · Sturr v. Beck · Miller & Lux v. Madera Canal & Irrigation Co. · Hough v. Porter · Lux v. Haggin
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A riparian owner is entitled to a reasonable amount of water for use on his riparian lands. What is a reasonable amount varies with the circumstances of each particular case and. also varies from year to year, for the amount which might be reasonable in a season of plenty might be manifestly unreasonable in a season of drought. Nor is the question of reasonableness to be tested solely by the needs of the upper riparian proprietor. The rights of riparian proprietors are correlative and the ‘reasonable’ amount to which any one riparian owner is entitled is to be measured by comparison with the needs of the other riparian proprietors.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Claimants, to gain a right to the use of a definite amount of water, must show that the quantity of water awarded them has been actually diverted, * * *.”
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.