Smith v. Duff’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District Number One v. Southwest Cotton Co. (1931), Bailey v. Tintinger (1912)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Toohey v. Campbell · Power v. Switzer · McDonald v. Lannen · Beaverhead Canal Co. v. Dillon Electric Light & Power Co. · Spokane Ranch & Water Co. v. Beatty
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.
““One who asserts a right to the exclusive use of water, by reason of its development by him, must assure the court, by satisfactory proof, that he is not intercepting the supply to which his neighbor is rightly entitled.””
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.