Kane v. Bowden’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1950
1 district · 12 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 Gregory v. Bush · Roe v. Howard County
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Water flowing in a well-defined water course, whether swale or creek, in its primitive condition, may not, except in the exercise of the power of eminent domain, lawfully be diverted and east upon lands of an adjoining proprietor, where it was not wont to run according to natural drainage.””
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.