State of Missouri v. State of Nebraska State of Nebraska’s Empirical Analysis
196 U.S. 23 · 1904
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1993 · most notably Durfee v. Duke (1963), Hill v. Wallace (1922)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Hardin v. Jordan · Jefferis v. East Omaha Land Co. · Railroad Company v. Schurmeir · Nebraska v. Iowa · Mitchell v. Smale
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the stream from any cause, natural or artificial, suddenly leaves its old bed and forms a new one, by the process known as an avulsion, the resulting change of channel works no change of boundary, which remains in the middle of the old channel, although no water may be flowing in it, and irrespective of subsequent changes in the new channel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But if the change is violent and visible, and arises from a known cause, such as a freshet, or a cut through which a new channel is formed, the original thread of the stream continues to mark the limits of the two estates.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Willett v. Miller“must be taken to be the middle of the channel of the river as it was prior to such avulsion.”
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.