Proctor v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2024
1 federal appellate · 14 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the rights of each [appropriate] are to be determined by the conditions of things at the time he makes his appropriation. So far is this rule carried that those who were prior to him can in no way change in extent their use to his prejudice, but are limited to the right enjoyed by them when he secured his.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Priority of appropriation, where no other title exists, undoubtedly gives the better right.”
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.