5 Cal. App. 175 - De Wolfskill v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2006
14 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 Miller v. Chrisman · Hoag v. Howard · Foorman v. Wallace · De Necochea v. Curtis · Weed v. Snook
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having capped the wells, and enjoined appellant from entering upon the land to complete the ditch, by means of which she sought to divert the water to the place of intended use, respondents are in no position to assert that appellant has failed to prosecute the work with diligence and become an actual appropriator.” De Wolfskill v. Smith, 5 Cal. App. 175, 89 Pac. 1001 .”
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.