543 F. Supp. 1270 - Cherry v. Steiner’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2011
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (Rules of Decision Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Weinberger v. Salfi · Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. · Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court recognized the right of the state against individuals to regulate water consumption and rejected the plaintiff's claim that the 1948 code confiscated its rights as the owner of the groundwater under its lands. Several years later, in construing the effect of the 1953 and 1954 amendments to the 1948 code, the court had no difficulty with a provision similar to that in issue here which provided that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“precludes judicial inquiry from going behind the legislation to examine the circumstances under which it was passed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cherry v. Steiner“a radical departure from prior law [that did] violence to [the landowners'] property rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cherry v. Steiner
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.