Packer v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1981
7 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 Railroad Company v. Schurmeir · Lux v. Haggin · People v. Gold Run Ditch & Mining Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“-We do not concur in iliis view. Tho river being navigable in fact, tho title extends no further than the edge of the stream. We think this conclusion accords with tho rulings in People v. Gold Run Ditch & Min. Co., 66 Cal. 138 , 4 Pac. 1152 , and Lux v. Haggin, 69 Cal. 255 , 10 Pac. 674 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.