Moyer v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006
13 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To file such a statement under the Acts of 1886 and .1888, no previous application for a permit to initiate and complete an appropriation was required as is the case with the later legislation. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The work'of construction was prosecuted with diligence until completion, followed by an immediate application of the water to beneficial uses, which application had been continued.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Bean
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.