Hill v. Winkler’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably First State Bank of Alamogordo v. McNew (1928), Walker v. United States (2007)
23 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 Light v. United States · Buford v. Houtz · Healy v. Smith · Sears v. Fewson · Pecos Valley & Northeastern Ry. Co. v. Cazier
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.
““Our conclusion, therefore, is that the rule, taking into consideration all its limitations and as generally applied throughout the Western States, requires the owner to fence out cattle if he desires to claim damages for trespasses by animals when lawfully at large.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Hickel“had a first and prior right to graze the said tract of government land by reason of prior occupancy thereof, and by reason of the further fact that they had acquired and developed permanent waters in connection therewith for the proper maintenance of such cattle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it seem[ed] clear ... that the attempted granting of an exclusive right in the use of the public domain ... would clearly violate the congressional act, and must therefore be held invalid, if that was the intention of the Legislature.”
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.