Simmons v. Winters’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 1951 · most notably Hough v. Porter (1909), Nevada Ditch Co. v. Bennett (1896)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 43 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 Weis v. City of Madison · Hoyt v. City of Hudson · Cave v. Crafts · Barnes v. Sabron · Tucker v. Jones
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When there is a living stream of water, within well-defined banks and channel, no matter how limited may be its flow of water, there is no difficulty in determining its character as a watercourse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hayes v. Adams““The needs or the purpose for which the appropriation is made is the limit to the amount of water which may be taken. He can only appropriate so much as he needs for the given purpose”:”
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.