Simmons v. Ramsbottom’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1979
8 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 Willis v. Willis · Farm Investment Co. v. Carpenter · Wyoming Hereford Ranch v. Hammond Packing Co. · Laramie Irrigation & Power Co. v. Grant · Van Buskirk v. Red Buttes Land & Livestock Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In Wyoming Hereford Ranch v. Hammond Packing Co. * * it was held that the courts of this state have jurisdiction to determine the question of an abandonment of a water right where it has not been previously litigated and becomes an issue in an action in the courts, and it may be noted in that connection that the statutes of this state make special provision for a proceeding for abandonment of a water right before the State Board of Control. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Louth v. Kaser
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.