Hooker v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1822
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1997 · most notably Idaho v. Coeur Tribe of Idaho (1997), Lawton v. Steele (1894)
27 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.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie legislature have, confessedly, the right of regulating the taking of fish in private rivers, and do every year pass laws for that purpose as to rivers not navigable in any sense, and which are unquestionably private property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Doxtater
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.