Metcalf v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1964
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 Armstrong v. Zane's heirs · Taylor v. Fickas · Swett v. Cutts · Southern Pac. R.R. v. Dufour · Wilson v. City of New Bedford
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While it may not be technically correct to say that the landowner is the absolute owner of percolating waters gathered into a spring or well, such is often the expression of the courts and text writers, and probably means what, in respect to water, is practically equivalent to ownership, — the exclusive right to use and dispose of it."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knight v. Grimes
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.