Pinney v. Luce’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1960
4 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 Parker v. Griswold · Wadsworth v. Tillotson · Morrill v. Saint Anthony Falls Water-Power Co. · Mayor of Baltimore v. Appold · Davis v. Getchell
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All that the law requires of the party by or over whose laqd a stream passes is that he should' use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not to destroy, or render useless, or materially diminish or affect, the application of the water by the proprietors, above or below.” Pinney v. Luce, 44 Minn. 367 , 46 N. W. 561 .”
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.