Walsh v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably Rupert Ex Rel. Rupert v. Stienne (1974), Hough v. Porter (1909)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Nevada Ditch Co. v. Bennett · Insurance Company v. Harris · Watson v. Sutro · Larimer County Reservoir Co. v. People ex rel. Luthe · Barrows v. Fox
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an actual diversion ... with intent to apply it to a beneficial use, followed by an application to such use within a reasonable time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““A decree should be based upon definite findings, and the findings can be no more definite or certain than the evidence justifies; and where, as in the case at bar (an equitable action to determine conflicting claims of right to the use of water, with the parties before the court), there is nothing whatever in the record upon which to base findings or decision of those rights, either expressly or impliedly, and the findings and decision leave a material part of the controversy undetermined, or to be determined by piecemeal by future litigation, the action of the court in leaving undetermined essential rights of all the parties cannot be upheld, and is contrary to law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robison v. Bate
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.