Pyle v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2010
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Goodrich v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. · Price v. High Shoals Manufacturing Co. · Hendrick v. Cook · Oostanaula Mining Co. v. Miller · McNabb v. Houser
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“irrigation is not a per se diversion of water prohibited by law. In sum, we find that the right of the lower riparian to receive the natural flow of the water without diversion or diminution is subject to the right of the upper riparian to its reasonable use, for agricultural purposes, including irrigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tunison v. Harper“[t]he use of water for agricultural purposes . . . [is] a reasonable use along with domestic use. . . . [and] `that a reasonable amount of water may be diverted for irrigation, under the general right of use for domestic and agricultural purposes.' [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tunison v. Harper“whether the use of water for irrigation is a diversion under our laws and thus is prohibited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tunison v. Harper
How this case has been treated — in progress
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