Becker v. Litty’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Connor v. State (1961), Sugarloaf Citizens Assoc., Inc. v. Gudis (1990)
27 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 525 (General Bridge Act of 1946) · 49 U.S.C. § 30102
Relies on Hines v. Davidowitz · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · Gibbons v. Ogden · Hillsborough County v. Automated Medical Laboratories, Inc. · Maryland v. Louisiana
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every riparian owner has the right of ingress and egress between his land and water. In addition, as member of the public, he has the right to travel on navigable streams. It is important to distinguish these rights. The right to go from his land to the river and from the river to his land is a private property right of the riparian owner. Navigation on public waters is exclusively a public right. Everyone has an equal right to the use of the water for travel and transportation.”
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.