Linthicum v. Coan’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1989 · most notably United States Greathouse v. Dern (1933), Harbor Island Marina v. BOARD OF CTY. COMMISSIONERS OF CALVERT CTY. (1979)
2 district · 26 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that where a tract of land lies adjacent or contiguous to a navigable river or water, any increase of soil formed by the waters gradually or imperceptibly receding, or any gain by alluvion in the same manner, shall, as a compensation for what it may lose in other respects, belong to the proprietor of the adjacent or contiguous land.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the right to make improvements in navigable waters granted by the Act of 1745, ch. 9, sec. 10, was a mere privilege of acquiring property by reclaiming it from the water, and that until the improvement was completed, no title was acquired by the adjacent owner,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.