Orr v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
245 F. 486 · 1917
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1977
1 district · 2 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
Relationships
Relies on Davidson v. New Orleans · Hagar v. · County of Mobile v. Kimball · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · Houck v. Little River Drainage District
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.
“To prevent floods, to protect cities, villages, farms and highways from inundation, and to authorize the organization of drainage and conservation districts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Orr v. Allen
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.