State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. McLean’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1995
10 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 Sturm v. Boker · State Ex Rel. Erickson v. McLean · Westerman v. City of Carlsbad · State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. Mendenhall · In Re Williams'will
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the very most, the letter from the state engineer is only the expression of an opinion, and the law is well settled that where the facts are equally well known to both parties, the expression of an opinion on a matter of law raises no estoppel.”
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.