6 Cal. App. 233 - Ex Parte Elam’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1994
16 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 Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company · Ohio Oil Company v. State of Indiana · City of Pasadena v. Stimson · Katz v. Walkinshaw · In Re Smith
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No surface owner possesses the right to extract the subterranean water in excess of a reasonable and beneficial use upon the land from which it is extracted. Any additional extraction is not in the exercise of a right if by such exercise the rights of others are injuriously affected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garns v. Rollins
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.