Wrathall v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2006
19 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 Deseret Live Stock Co. v. Hooppiania · Horne v. Utah Oil Refining Co. · Willow Creek Irrigation Co. v. Michaelson · Salt Lake City v. Gardner · Peterson v. Wood
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The water of all streams and other sources in this state, whether flowing above or under the ground in known or defined natural channels, is hereby declared to be the property of the public, subject to all existing rights to the use thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNaughton v. Eaton
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.