State v. Sunset Ditch Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 1995 · most notably State Ex Rel. Klineline v. Blackhurst (1988), City of Raton v. Sproule (1967)
38 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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States · Louis Liggett Co v. Baldridge · Colgate v. Harvey
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * must be reasonable and not arbitrary, and that the classification attempted in order to avoid the constitutional prohibition must be founded upon pertinent and real differences as distinguished from artificial ones. Mere difference, of itself, is not enough. * * *"”
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.