Bode v. Rollwitz’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably PPL MONTANA, LLC v. State (2010), Omaha Indian Tribe v. Wilson (1978)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Hardin v. Jordan · St. Louis v. Rutz · Barden v. Northern Pacific Railroad · Scott v. Lattig · Horne v. 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where from natural causes land forms by imperceptible degrees upon the bank of a river or stream, navigable or not navigable, either by accumulation of material or by the recession of the stream, such land belongs to the owner of the bank, subject to any existing right-of-way over the bank.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Filler v. McDaniel
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.