Hess v. Muir’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
3 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Harbor Island Marina v. BOARD OF CTY. COMMISSIONERS OF CALVERT CTY. (1979), Sage v. Mayor of New York (1897)
3 district · 44 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be entitled to all accretions to said land by the recession of said water, whether heretofore or hereafter formed or made by natural causes or otherwise, in like manner and to like extent as such right may or can be claimed by the proprietor of land binding on water not navigable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such improvements and other accretions as above provided for shall pass to the successive owners of the land to which they are attached, as incident to their respective estates .”
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.