Engel v. Gampp’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Gallagher (2001), Shammel v. Canyon Resources Corp. (2003)
39 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 Rieman v. Anderson · Ducham v. Tuma · Laden v. Atkeson · Gabriel v. Wood · Hollister v. Forsythe
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A person with a canal or ditch easement has a secondary easement to enter, inspect, repair, and maintain a canal or ditch. (2) No person may encroach upon or otherwise impair any easement for a canal or ditch used for irrigation or any other lawful domestic or commercial purpose, including carrying return water. (5) If a legal action is brought to enforce the provisions of this section, the prevailing party is entitled to costs and reasonable attorney’s fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Espy v. Quinlan“in such a reasonable manner as not to needlessly increase the burden upon”
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.