Bainbridge v. Sherlock’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2018
15 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 Rice v. Ruddiman · Dutton v. Strong · Stinson v. Butler
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“They (riparian owners) have the right to construct wharves, buildings, and other improvements in front of their lands, so long as the public servitude is not thereby impaired. They are a part of the realty to which they are attached, and pass with it. Certainly no one can occupy, for his individual purposes, the water in front of such riparian proprietor, and the attempt of any person to do so would be a trespass.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dyer v. Hall“had no right to land on the wharf of the plaintiff unless by his consent. The defendants were trespassers for each act of injury to the plaintiff caused by landing their boats.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dyer v. Hall“there is no 'shore,' in the legal sense of that term; that is, a margin between high and low tide-the title to which is common.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.