Owsichek v. State, Guide Licensing & Control Board’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably In Re Water Use Permit Applications (2000), McDowell v. State (1989)
28 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 Hughes v. Oklahoma · Geer v. State of Connecticut · Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois · Illinois Cent Co v. State of Illinois City of Chicago · Metlakatla Indian Community, Annette Islands Reserve v. Egan
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]herever occurring in their natural state, fish, wildlife, and waters are reserved to the people for common use.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McDowell v. State · Pullen v. Ulmer“Laws and regulations governing the use or disposal of natural resources shall apply equally to all persons similarly situated with reference to the subject matter and purpose to be served by the law or regulation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]hese migrating schools of fish, while in inland waters, are the property of the state, held in trust for the benefit of all the state....”
3 later decisions 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.