Sharp v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2014
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Bauder v. Tyrrel · Irving v. Cunningham · Bennett v. Hobro
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.
““The gravamen of plaintiff’s action being the deprivation of water for irrigation during the irrigating seasons in the years 1883, 1884, and 1885, whereby he suffered loss, it is incumbent on him to show by satisfactory evidence (Code Civ. JProc. § 1835) a right to the use of the waters of the creek during each of such seasons, and interference with such right and a consequent injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hewitt v. Story
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.