Crow v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Bobo v. Jones (2006), 98 F. Supp. 730 - Kimble v. Willey (1951)
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Wallace v. Driver · Nix v. Pfeifer · Lecroy v. Sigman · Bellefontaine Improvement Co. v. Niedringhaus · Crill v. Hudson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Land formed by gradual and imperceptible accretion, or by gradual recession of the water, belongs to the owner of the contiguous land to which the accretion is made. The river line is a natural boundary, and its gradual advance or retreat carries the owner’s line with it, except in the case of an avulsion, or sudden and perceptible change of the watercourse, in which latter case the line remains at the old water line, and becomes fixed by it, not subject to further change by the caprice of the river.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It may be said that to constitute an island in the river the same must be of a permanent character, not merely surrounded by water when the river is high, but permanendy surrounded by a channel of the river, and not a sand bar, subject to overflow by the rise of the river and connected with the mainland when the river is low.”
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.