Bates v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1961
14 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 New Cache la Poudre Irrigation Co. v. Water Supply & Storage Co. · Broadmoor Dairy & Live Stock Co. v. Brookside Water & Improvement Co. · Simpson v. Smith · Hite v. Stimmell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under this statute we consider it necessary that a petitioner show a right to the use of a certain quantity of water from a public stream for irrigation as a condition precedent to obtaining a decree permitting a change in its point of diversion. To decree in favor of such change where the volume is not fixed would probably lead to useless litigation between rival claimants and the water commissioner.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stancato v. Friend
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.