Fourzan v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1989
20 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 Wyoming v. United States · Payne v. Central Pacific Railway Co. · Payne v. State of New Mexico · Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District Number One v. Southwest Cotton Co. · Howard v. Perrin
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the phrase ‘springs on the surface’ refers only to the waters which" emerge from the earth without artificial assistance, and that no appropriation can be made of percolating waters developed' through the means of tunnels, cuts, wells or other artificial structures, even though those waters may by such structures be brought to the surface at the place where a ‘spring on the surface’ already exists. ” Fourzan v. Curtis, 43 Ariz. 140, 145 , 29 P.2d 722, 724 (1934).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * It is the law of Arizona that percolating waters belong to the owner of the land on which they are found. (citations omitted) And he may convey them to other premises than those on which they are originally found, provided no other rights are injured thereby. (citation omitted)" Fourzan v. Curtis, 43 Ariz. 140, 147 , 29 P.2d 722, 725 (1934).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neal v. Hunt“The waters of all sources, flowing in streams, canyons, ravines or other natural channels, or in definite underground channels, whether perennial or intermittent, flood, waste or surplus water, and of lakes, ponds and springs on the surface, belong to the public and are subject to appropriation and beneficial use as provided in this chapter.”
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.