Tool House, Inc. v. Tynes’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2015
4 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 377 So. 2d 1286 - JB LaHaye Farms, Inc. v. La. Dept. of Highways · 209 So. 2d 603 - Wappler v. Braucht · 209 So. 2d 568 - Freestate Industrial Development Co. v. T. & H., 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The owner of the servient estate may not do anything to prevent the flow of the water. The owner of the dominant estate may not do anything to render the servitude more burdensome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An estate situated below is bound to receive the surface waters that flow naturally from an estate situated above unless an act of man has created the flow.”
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.