Carson v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1946
3 federal appellate · 19 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 Alta Land & Water Co. v. Hancock · People v. Gold Run Ditch & Mining Co. · Grisby v. Clear Lake Water Works Co. · Anaheim Water Co. v. Semi-Tropic Water Co. · Wimer v. Simmons
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law is well established that no right to the use of water can be acquired by prescription, unless there has been such an invasion of the rights of the parties against whom it is asserted as would have given them a cause of action therefor.””
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.