State v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1995
8 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 Harper v. Galloway · Cawsey v. Brickey · Barker v. State Fish Commission · Ex Parte Marsh v. Bartlett · State v. Futrell
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The court finds and concludes that the evidence adduced by the Department of Conservation at trial demonstrated that the public’s interest in the control, management, conservation and regulation of fish and wildlife is advanced and furthered by the rules and regulations issued by the Department,.... 2. The court finds and concludes that the “waters of the state” regulation makes clear the Department’s jurisdiction over those bodies of water comprising as a whole the hydrologic system of the State of Missouri and in which the fish of Missouri are to be found. Substantial interests of the State of Missouri are served by the application of the “waters of the state” regulation to situations where there is movement of fishes to and from “waters of the state” including: (i) enforcement of the state’s rights- in fish titled in the state, (ii) prevention of spread of disease in fish populations, (in) prevention of the spread and resulting proliferation of exotic species of fish in the hydrologic system managed by the state of Missouri, and (iv) maintenance of proper fish populations throughout the connected waterways. 3. The court concludes that the “waters of the state” regulation reasonably promotes the objectives of the regulatory scheme of the Department of Conservation and the “water of the state” regulation in particular. Missouri has specifically upheld and found constitutional fishing laws which classify territory, permitting fishing on one stream or in one territorial are”
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.