Smith v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2021
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 North Chicago Rolling Mill Co. v. St. Louis Ore & Steel Co. · Porter v. Roseman · Quick v. Lemon · Forbes & Bro. v. Cooper & Co. · Ruhnke v. Aubert
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.
“enough watee to irrigate the conveyed land is without a durational limit or caveat based on the availability of water. Such broad language creating a perpetual obligation to provide water has the practical effect of a water-right conveyance. See Smith v. Willis, 163 P. 810, 814 (Or. 1917) (The agreement to furnish the water, the deed conveying the land, and the mortgage were all parts of the same transaction, and it is specified in the contract, which is executed with all the formalities attending a conveyance of real property, that the right therein conveyed shall be perpetual. The water right thereby became an appurtenance to the land, and as such a part of the realty.”
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.