Waldner v. Blachnik’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2009
6 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 Mulry v. . Norton · Allard v. Curran · Randolph v. Hinck · Erickson v. Horlyk · Maw v. Bruneau
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that accretions to the island and to the mainland eventually meet affords no reason for varying the ordinary rule that accretions belong to the land upon which their formation . begins and from which -it extends. The line of contact becomes the boundary line between the respective riparian owners.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hogue v. Bourgois
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.