52 Cal. App. 237 - Stepp v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably City of Pasadena v. City of Alhambra (1949), 33 Cal. App. 2d 725 - Grant v. Long (1939)
25 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 Stoner v. Zucker · Flickinger v. Shaw · Watson v. Lawson · Faulkner v. Rondoni · Hesperia Land & Water Co. v. Rogers
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The recognized principle, therefore, is that where a licensee has entered [upon the premises otE another] under a parol license and has expended money, or its equivalent in labor, in the execution of the license, the license becomes irrevocable, the licensee will have a right of entry upon the lands of the licensor for the purpose of maintaining his structures, or, in general, his rights under his license, and the license will continue for so long a time as the nature of it calls for.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ These waste waters were of a vagrant or fugitive character, and, while, so long as they remained so or were not controlled by the owner of the ditch from which they escaped they were subject to appropriation and use by others, a usufruct could not be acquired therein.””
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.