Rank v. Krug’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2005 · most notably Dugan v. Rank (1963), United States v. Gerlach Live Stock Co. (1950)
19 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 663 · 16 U.S.C. § 664 · 16 U.S.C. § 791A (§ 321 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1655 · 30 U.S.C. § 51 · 33 U.S.C. § 540 · 33 U.S.C. § 701A
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · United States v. Causby · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · United States v. Lee · Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]othing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or use of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the water thereof: Provided, That the right to use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Art. 7587. When, in the examination of any such irrigation or reclamation project, under the provisions of the Act of Congress, known as The Reclamation Act, approved June 17, 1902, it shall be found advisable or necessary to irrigate or reclaim lands within the limits of the State, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior is authorized to make all necessary examinations and surveys for, and to locate and construct irrigation or reclamation works within this State, and to perform any and all acts necessary to carry into effect the provisions, limitations, charges, terms and conditions of said Reclamation Act.” “Art. 7622. The County Commission-, ers’ Court of any county in this State * * * may establish * * * Water Improvement Districts * * * in the, manner hereinafter provided * * *. Such districts may be formed for cooperation with the United States under the Federal Reclamation Laws for the purpose of the construction of irrigation works, including drainage works, necessary to maintain the irrigability of the land for the purchase, extension, operation or maintenance of constructed works or for the assumption, as principal or guarantor, of indebtedness to the United States on account of district lands.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) Representation. If persons constituting a class are so numerous as to make it impracticable to bring them all before the court, such of them, one or more, as will fairly insure the adequate representation of all may, on behalf of all, sue or be sued, when the character of the right sought to be enforced for or against the class is “(1) joint, or common, or secondary in the sense that the owner of a primary right refuses to enforce that right and a member of the class thereby becomes entitled to enforce it; “(2) several, and the object of the action is the adjudication of claims which do or may affect specific property involved in the action; or “(3) several, and there is a common question of law or fact affecting the several rights and a common relief is sought.””
1 later decision 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.