Hunter v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
388 F.2d 148 · 1967
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably 114 Wash. 2d 271 - Marincovich v. Tarabochia (1990), Walker v. United States (2007)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 3 · 30 U.S.C. § 51 · 30 U.S.C. § 52 · 43 U.S.C. § 661
Relies on Lynch v. Overholser · Camfield v. United States · Light v. United States · California Oregon Power Co. v. Beaver Portland Cement Co. · Wiggins Ferry Co. v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of these acts is not limited to rights acquired before 1866. They reach into the future as well, and approve and confirm the policy of appropriation for a beneficial use, as recognized by local rules and customs, and the legislation and judicial decisions of the arid-land states, as the test and measure of private rights in and to the nonnavigable waters on the public domain.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an appurtenance ... is that which is essential to the use of the right granted”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall set forth the reasons for its issuance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.