Boise Artesian Hot Cold Water Company v. Boise City No 573 Boise City’s Empirical Analysis
230 U.S. 84 · 1913
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 7 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2004 · most notably Frost v. Corporation Commission (1929), City of Owensboro v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1913)
25 federal appellate · 7 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Detroit v. Detroit Citizens' Street Railway Co. · Louis Loeb v. Trustees of Columbia Township · Field v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. · City of Louisville v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The right which is acquired under an ordinance granting the right to a water company to lay and maintain its pipes in the streets is a substantial property right. It has all the attributes of property. It is assignable, and will pass under a mortgage sale of the property and franchises of the company which owned it." (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.