Hilt v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2017
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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 Shively v. Bowlby · United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co. · Hardin v. Jordan · United States v. River Rouge Improvement Co. · Barney v. Keokuk
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “The riparian owner has the exclusive use of the bank and-shore, and may erect bathing houses and structures thereon for his business or pleasure (45 C. J. p. 505; 22 L. R. A. [N. S.] 345; Town of Orange v. Resnick, 94 Conn. 573 [ 109 Atl. 864 , 10 A. L. R. 1046]); although it also has been held that he cannot extend structures into the space between low and high-water mark, without consent of the State (Thiesen v. Railway Co., 75 Fla. 28 [ 78 South. 491 ; L. R. A. 1918E, 718]). And it has been held that the public has no right of passage over dry land between low and high-water mark but the exclusive use is in the riparian owner, although the title is in the State. Doemel v. Jantz, 180 Wis. 225 ( 193 N. W. 393 , 31 A. L. R. 969).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Riparian rights are property, for the taking or destruction of which by the state compensation must be made unless the use has a real and substantial relation to a paramount trust purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““ ‘The only"substantial paramount public right is the right to the free and unobstructed use of navigable waters for navigation.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.