State v. Hiber’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1990
12 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 Lux v. Haggin · Motl v. Boyd · Miller & Lux v. Madera Canal & Irrigation Co. · Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District Number One v. Southwest Cotton Co. · Los Angeles Cemetery Ass'n v. City of Los Angeles
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Surface water,’ it has been said, is that which is diffused over the surface of the ground, derived from falling rains and melting snows, and continues to be such, and may be impounded by the owner of the land, until it reaches some well-defined channel in which it is accustomed to, and does, flow with other waters; or until it reaches some permanent lake or pond, and it then ceases to be surface water and becomes the water of the water course, or a lake or a pond, as the case may be. Kinney on Irrigation, [ (2d Ed.)] § 318; Crawford v. Rambo, 44 Ohio St. 279 , 7 N.E. 429 [(1886)]; King v. Chamberlin, 20 Idaho[] 504, 118 P. 1099 [(1911)].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * Too much stress ought not, perhaps, be placed upon any one of the elements mentioned, and all should be given due consideration. * * *"”
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.