Pixley v. . Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2012 · most notably Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. (1911), Katz v. Walkinshaw (1903)
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendants also insist that the injury might be remedied by the plaintiff, at small cost, by digging a drain along the embankment. If this were true, he is not bound to do it. As the defendants caused the damage, without authority, and for their own benefit, they should find the remedy at their own expense.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An owner of the soil may divert percolating water, consume or cut it off with impunity. It is the same as land, and cannot be distinguished in law from land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Katz v. Walkinshaw
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.