Templeton v. Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably City of Albuquerque v. Reynolds (1962), State Ex Rel. Martinez v. City of Las Vegas (2004)
56 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 Totah Drilling Company v. Abraham · State ex rel. Magee v. Williams · Black v. Taylor · Gore v. Cone · RICHLANDS IRR. CO. v. WESTVIEW IRR. CO. Et Al.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Applying the foregoing principles to this case would lead to the conclusion that the appellees were entitled to the waters of the Valley Fill that flowed into the Rio Felix at the time of their [surface] appropriation. It seems that there is nothing in the law that would prevent them from following this water through an application for a change of point of diversion, provided that it does not impair any other existing rights. In other words, their applications do not amount to a request for a neiv appropriation in the tmdergrotmd water basin, but merely a request to follow the source of their original appropriation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the State Engineer can only grant permits to appropriate waters which are not already appropriated,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject to the rights of all prior appropriators from the same source.”
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.