Tyler v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1827
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022
4 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 Merritt v. Brinkerhoff · Ingraham v. Hutchinson · Platt v. Johnson & Root
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.
“[i]n virtue of this ownership[,] ... has a right to the use of the water flowing over it in its natural current, without diminution or obstruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether it is to the injury of the other proprietors or not.”
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.