United States v. District Court in and for Water Division No 5 Colorado’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 18 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States (1976), United States v. New Mexico (1978)
19 federal appellate · 18 district · 52 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 43 U.S.C. § 666
Relies on Dugan v. Rank · Johnson v. United States · United States v. District Court in & for the County of Eagle
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he present suit ... reaches all claims, perhaps month by month but inclusively in the totality.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State of Wyo. v. United States · United States of America, and Klamath Allottees Water Users Association Klamath Tribe, Plaintiffs-Intervenors v. State of Oregon, Water Resources Department, and William H. Young, Director, United States of America, and Klamath Allottees Water Users Association, Plaintiff-Intervenor, and Klamath Tribe, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant v. State of Oregon, Water Resources Department, and William H. Young, Director, United States of America, and Klamath Allottees Water Users Association, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant v. State of Oregon, Water Resources Department, and William H. Young, Director, United States of America, and Klamath Allottees Water Users Association Klamath Tribe, Plaintiffs-Intervenors v. State of Oregon, Water Resources Department, and William H. Young, Director“if there is a collision between prior adjudicated rights and reserved rights of the United States, the federal question can be preserved in the state decision and brought here for review”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all lands in the state of Colorado in the drainage basins of the Colorado river and all of its tributaries arising within Colorado, with the exception of the Gunnison river.”
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.