Bothwell v. Bingham County’s Empirical Analysis
237 U.S. 642 · 1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1946 · most notably Sra v. State of Minnesota (1946), Fox Film Corporation v. Doyal (1932)
2 federal appellate · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBothwell v. Bingham County
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Van Brocklin v. Anderson · Wisconsin Cent Co v. Price County · Witherspoon v. Duncan · Winona St Land Co v. State of Minnesota
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As fast as any State may furnish satisfactory proof according to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, that any of said lands are irrigated, reclaimed and occupied by actual settlers, patents shall be issued to the State or its assigns for said lands so reclaimed and settled.....” (28 Stats. L. 422; 8 Fed. Stats. Ann., 2d ed., 699.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ .... When an ample supply of water is actually furnished in a substantial ditch or canal, or by artesian wells or reservoirs, to reclaim a particular tract or tracts of such lands, then patents shall issue for the same to such State without regard to settlement or cultivation.....” (29 Stats. L. 434 ; 8 Fed. Stats. Ann., 2d ed., 701.)”
1 later decision 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.