Kavanaugh v. Rabior’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2004
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 Illinois Cent Co v. State of Illinois City of Chicago · Illinois Steel Co. v. Bilot · Diedrich v. Northwestern Union Railway Co. · People v. Silberwood · Ainsworth v. Munoskong Hunting & Fishing Club
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the established law of this State that riparian owners along the Great Lakes own only to the meander line, and that title outside this meander line, subject to the rights of navigation, is held in trust by the State for the use of its citizens.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hilt v. Weber · Kavanaugh v. Baird““When the meander line was established it fixed the status of the disputed strip as lake bottom, and this status in the law would not change even though a portion of it had become dry land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kavanaugh v. Baird
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.