Ickes v. Fox Same’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 82 · 1937
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 37 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 397 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984), Feres v. United States (1950)
119 federal appellate · 37 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedIckes v. Fox (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Lee · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · Tindal v. Wesley
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 397 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the [water] right.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[appropriation was made not for the use of the government, but, under the Reclamation Act, for the use of the landowners; and by the terms of the law and of the contract already referred to, the water rights became the property of the landowners, wholly distinct from the property right of the government in the irrigation works.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“severed the land and waters constituting the public domain and established the rule that for the future the lands should be patented separately. Acquisition of the government title to a parcel of land was not to carry with it a water right; but all non-navigable waters were reserved for the use of the public under the laws of the various arid-land states.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.