White v. Nuckolls’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1978
1 federal appellate · 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 Scovill v. Glasner · Platte Valley Irrigation Co. v. Central Trust Co. · Medano Ditch Co. v. Adams · Dunne v. Stotesbury · Messenger v. Northcutt
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A right to the use of water is limited in time and volume to the extent of the needs of the party in whose favor such right is established for the purpose named. The law reads this limitation into decrees establishing such right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.