Harkey v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Dority (1950), State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. Mendenhall (1961)
28 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 Hagerman Irrigation Co. v. McMurry · Pueblo of Isleta v. Tondre · Albuquerque Land & Irrigation Co. v. Gutierrez · Gates v. Settlers' Milling, Canal & Reservoir Co. · Millheiser v. Long
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.
“It may be stated generally that, under the arid region doctrine, uncontrolled by statute, the appropriation of water is accomplished by taking or diversion of it from a natural stream or other sources of water supply, with intent to apply it to some beneficial use or purpose, and consummated within a reasonable time by the actual application of the water to the use designed or some other useful purpose. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]eneficial use [of water] shall be the basis, the measure and the limit of the right to the use of water[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bounds v. State
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.