Wimer v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1949 · most notably Smith v. Denniff (1900), Nevada Ditch Co. v. Bennett (1896)
2 district · 26 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 Alta Land & Water Co. v. Hancock · Sieber v. Frink · Simmons v. Winters · Davis v. Gale · Anaheim Water Co. v. Semi-Tropic Water Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Much stress was laid upon the case of Schulz v. Sweeny, 19 Nev. 359 , 11 Pac. 253 [ 3 Am. St. Rep. 888 ], and cases of like nature, as authority in point showing an abandonment. In the case referred to, the very act of discharging the water again into a natural channel, by reason of the nature of the use and the absence of an intention to reclaim, constituted an abandonment. Such is not the case here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eglar v. Baker
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.