Roberts v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a legal right of every riparian proprietor to have a natural stream flow through his land in its natural channel, without obstruction or alteration even in its natural level, Wright & Rice v. Moore, et al., 38 Ala. 593 [(1863)], and any obstruction resulting in the unnatural enlargement of a stream to the injury of an upper proprietor gives to the upper proprietor a right of action. Gulf States Steel Co. v. Law, 224 Ala. 667 , 141 So. 641 [1932].””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Huff v. Smith