Turner v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 1996 · most notably 64 Cal. 2d 396 - Keys v. Romley (1966), St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Pennington (1977)
37 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 Mitchell v. Bain · Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway Co. v. Chapman · Boone v. Wilson · Macomber v. Godfrey · Baker v. Allen
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * A. ‘watercourse’ is defined to be ‘a running stream of water; a natural stream, including rivers, creeks, runs and rivulets.’ * * * there must be a stream, usually flowing in a particular direction, though it need not flow continually. It may sometimes be dry. It must flow in a definite channel, having a bed and banks, and usually discharges itself into some other stream or body of water. It must be something more than mere surface drainage over the entire face of the tract of land, occassioned by unusual freshets or other extraordinary causes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Solomon v. Congleton
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.