Espy v. Quinlan’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 2012
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carbon County v. Union Reserve Coal Co., Inc. · Daines v. Knight · Engel v. Gampp · Kuhlman v. Rivera · Knudsen v. Taylor
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 10 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. Byrum v. Andren
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.