Petraborg v. Zontelli’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Youngstown Mines Corp. v. Prout (1963), Johnson v. Seifert (1960)
25 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 Lamprey v. State · Hanford v. St. Paul & Duluth Railroad · In Re Estate of Lee · State v. Korrer · Union Depot, Street Railway & Transfer Co. v. Brunswick
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Who Would be the owner of the lake bed in the event of drainage and whether the taking would be for a public use are questions not necessary or proper for us here to consider.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * It is a well-settled policy of this state that `meandered lakes belong to the state in its sovereign capacity in trust for the public.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams“[E]ach cotenant has at all times the right to enter upon and enjoy every part of the common estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spence
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.