Bliss v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2013
9 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 Reno Smelting, Milling & Reduction Works v. Stevenson · Thurston v. Hancock · Jones v. Adams · Robinson v. Kind · Sweeney v. Hjul
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The conditions of this state, the demands and necessities of agriculture, mining, and milling, and the prosperity of its people, has entirely swept away this doctrine of riparian rights as unsuited; and this court, by a line of decisions based upon the requirements of the state, its industries and necessities. has adopted a rule suited to those conditions and necessities. It is now the settled doctrine of this state that a person can acquire the right to use the water flowing in a stream for the purpose of irrigation by appropriation, as against riparian proprietors or other persons; the priority of rights of various claimants to the use thereof to be determined by the priority of time in making the various appropriations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Bassman
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.