Wallace v. Driver’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably State of Arkansas v. State of Tennessee (1918), Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. State of New York (1926)
8 federal appellate · 37 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 Jefferis v. East Omaha Land Co. · St. Louis v. Rutz · The Mayor Aldermen v. The United States · State of Nebraska v. State of Lowa · Mulry v. . Norton
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to the cases we have cited, the high-water mark, as thus defined, being the boundary-line of the riparian owner in this state, is the point at which the formation of all lands acquired by him by accretion must begin. A formation of alluvion beginning at any other point would belong to the state or other party.” (Page 435.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fowler v. Wood
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.