Gregory v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1944 · most notably Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Johnson (1910), Todd v. York County (1904)
34 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 Barkley v. . Wilcox · Pettigrew v. Village of Evansville · 16 Ohio St. 324 - Lexington Fire, Life, & Marine Insurance v. Paver · Goodale v. . Tuttle · Boyd v. Conklin
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ One has a right to ditch and drain and dispose of the surface water upon his land as he sees fit; but he is not-authorized to injure, by so doing, the heritage of his. neighbor. He cannot collect and concentrate such waters, and pour them through an artificial ditch in unusual quantities upon his adjacent proprietor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Osten v. Jerome
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.