State Engineer v. Castle Meadows, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably City of Thornton v. Bijou Irrigation Co. (1996), People v. Baer (1999)
1 district · 51 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 Fellhauer v. People · Weibert v. Rothe Bros., Inc. · Woodsmall v. Regional Transportation District · Dunlap v. Colorado Springs Cablevision, Inc. · Danielson v. Castle Meadows, Inc.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nontributary ground water” means that ground water, located outside the boundaries of any designated ground water basins in existence on January 1, 1985, the withdrawal of which will not, within one hundred years, deplete the flow of a natural stream ... at an annual rate greater than one-tenth of one percent of the annual rate of withdrawal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the object that the legislature sought to obtain by its enactment, the circumstances under which it was adopted, and the consequences of a particular construction.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“natural land conditions with impermeable surfaces.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.