Offield v. Ish’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2002
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Geddis v. Parrish · Ellis v. Pomeroy Improvement Co. · Thorpe v. Tenem Ditch Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right to use the water is the essence of appropriation; the means by which it is done are incidental.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““He continued from year to' year to improve the premises, put out more fruit trees and cultivated more of the land, as is usually done by farmers in improving new land. Appropriation of water consists in the intention, accompanied by reasonable diligence, to use the water for the purpose originally contemplated at the time of its diversion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Longmire v. Smith
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.