Lobdell v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably United States v. Walker River Irr. Dist. (1939), Barnes v. Sabron (1875)
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Ortman v. Dixon · Butte Canal & Ditch Co. v. Vaughn
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he first appropriator of the water of a stream passing through the public lands ... has the right to insist that the water shall be subject to his use and enjoyment to the extent of his original appropriation, and that its quality shall not be impaired so as to defeat the purpose of its appropriation.”
2 later decisions 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.