Brosnan v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1939
10 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 Southern Pac. R.R. v. Dufour · De Necochea v. Curtis · Cross v. Kitts · Ely v. Ferguson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever doubt may exist elsewhere upon the question, it would seem that the right to make such an appropriation of waste, spring, or seepage water finds recognition in the legislation of this state.” (Reference to the provision of § 5797.) * * “Under this provision there would seem to be no distinction between the right to appropriate the waters of running streams and those of springs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vaughan v. Kolb
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.