Bowman v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1932
23 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 Curtis v. La Grande Hydraulic Water Co. · Cole v. Logan · Wimer v. Simmons · Low v. Rizor · Johnson v. Skillman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No adverse user (of water) can be initiated until the persons possessing the superior use are deprived of its benefit in such a substantial manner as to notify them that their rights are being invaded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henderson v. Goforth
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.