Kramer v. Rager’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2016
9 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 Taylor v. Fickas · 156 Ind. App. 203 - Selvia v. Reitmeyer · New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Railroad v. Tutt · 151 Ind. App. 119 - Kinzel v. Rettinger · 147 Ind. App. 570 - Lynch v. Keck
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. (quoting Gasway, 526 N.E.2d at 1201 ). Water from falling rains or melting snows which is diffused over the surface of the ground or which temporarily flows upon or over the surface as the natural elevations and depressions of the land may guide it but which has no definite banks or channel, is surface water. Kramer v. Rager, 441 N.E.2d 700, 705 (Ind.Ct.App.1982). A natural watercourse is established when”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“surface water begins to flow in a definite direction and there is a regular channel formed with well defined banks and bottom and water flows therein, not necessarily continually but from time immemorial and for a substantial period of each year.”
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.