Toohey v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Bailey v. Tintinger (1912), Allen v. Petrick (1924)
39 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 Power v. Switzer · McDonald v. Lannen · Wood v. Lowney
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, as every appropriation must be made for a beneficial or useful purpose ... it becomes the duty of the courts to try the question of the claimant’s intent by his acts and the circumstances surrounding his possession of the water, its actual or contemplated use and the purposes thereof.”
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.