22 Tenn. App. 547 - Slatten v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1992
7 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 Smith v. City of Sedalia · Bunch v. Thomas · Kauffman v. Griesemer · Higgins v. Spear · Garland v. Aurin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Land can not be cultivated or enjoyed unless the springs which rise on the surface and the rains that fall thereon be allowed to make their escape through the adjoining and neighboring lands. All lands, therefore, are of necessity burdened with the servitude of receiving and discharging all waters which flow down to them from lands on a higher level, “We are unable to see any difference in principle between the reciprocal rights and duties of adjacent urban proprietors and those of adjacent rural proprietors; and hence we do not think it wise to apply one rule to city lots and a different rule to agricultural lands, especially in the same State.” 103 Tenn., pp. 559, 560, 562, 53 S.W., p. 941.”
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.