Phillips v. Cutler’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1985
6 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 Johnson v. Lewis · Clark v. Glidden · Ainsworth v. Stone · Occum Co. v. A. & W. Sprague Manufacturing Co. · Allen & Small v. Fiske
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled in this State that when the owner of premises containing a spring orally permits the owner of other premises to take water from the spring to his land by means of an aqueduct laid to such spring, without receiving consideration and without express limitation of time, the taking of the water under this permission is by virtue of a license not revocable during the ordinary life of the aqueduct. Clark v. Glidden, 60 Vt. 702 , 15 Atl. 358 [1887]; Allen v. Fiske, 42 Vt. 462 [1869]; Ainsworth v. Stone, 73 Vt. 101 , 50 Atl. 805 [1901]. In these cases the licensee may repair the aqueduct as far as necessary to keep it usable, but not to the extent of renewing it. Clark v. Glidden, 60 Vt. 702, 711 , 15 Atl. 358 .... Under the rule established in this State, the right to the water will pass as appurtenant to the property benefited, and neither the death of the owner of the spring nor his conveyance of the land will operate as a revocation. See Ainsworth v. Stone, 73 Vt. 101 , 50 Atl. 805 ; Clark v. Glidden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Guilbault v. Bowley
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.