Bergh v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Adams v. Frothingham · Michaelson v. Silver Beach Improvement Ass'n, Inc. · Labounty v. Vickers · Anderson v. DeVries
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]ittoral [shoreline] boundaries are not fixed, because natural processes of accretion or erosion change them, and ... easements, stated to run with such a boundary, ordinarily will follow the naturally changing line”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not a recognized method of changing littoral boundaries.”
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.