R.W. Docks & Slips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably E-L Enterprises, Inc. v. Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (2010), ABKA Ltd. Partnership v. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (2002)
26 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 Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“purely recreational purposes such as boating, swimming, fishing, hunting, . . . and . . . preserv[ing] scenic beauty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The title to the beds of all lakes and ponds, and of rivers navigable in fact as well, up to the line of ordinary high-water mark, within the boundaries of the state, became vested in it at the instant of its admission into the Union, in trust to hold the same so as to preserve to the people forever the enjoyment of the waters of such lakes, ponds, and rivers, to the same extent that the public are entitled to enjoy tidal waters at the common law." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“includ[ing] the right to use the shoreline and have access to the waters, the right to reasonable use of the waters for domestic, agricultural and recreational purposes, and the right to construct a pier or similar structure in aid of navigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.