Atwood v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 462 - City of Long Beach v. Mansell (1970), Berniker v. Berniker (1947)
25 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 Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois · Illinois Cent Co v. State of Illinois City of Chicago · People v. California Fish Co. · City of Oakland v. Oakland Water Front Co. · People Ex Rel. State Bd. of Harbor Comm'rs v. Kerber
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it would be contrary to the spirit and purpose of [the constitutional prohibition against alienation] to conclude that the word ‘tidelands’ ... denotes only those public lands which retain the physical .characteristics of tidelands at the time of proposed alienation, for such a construction would permit parties to remove public tidelands from the reach of the constitutional provision by simply filling so that such lands were no longer covered and uncovered by the flow and ebb of the tide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all of the revenue ... derived from 'dry gas' ... is hereby declared to be free from the public trust for navigation, commerce and fisheries, and from such uses, trusts, conditions and restrictions as are imposed by any of said above-entitled acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are of the view that it was competent for the legislature upon finding that the eighteen-acre tract was 'not longer required for navigation, commerce or fisheries,' to free it from the public easement for those purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.