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← 94 Utah 20 - Hammond v. Johnson

Hammond v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

1937

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
4
states following
February 2016
most recently cited

1 district · 14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2016

1 district · 14 state decisions

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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 Nelson v. Johnson · Rickey Land & Cattle Co. v. Miller · Deseret Live Stock Co. v. Hooppiania · Taylor v. Hulett · Dodge v. Marden

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““All waters in this state, whether above or under the ground are hereby declared to be the property of the public, subject to all existing rights to the use thereof.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “One may obtain . title by disseisin of the owner and use and possession of the [property] for the statutory time, commonly called 'adverse possession.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “* * * but questions of abandonment shall be questions of fact, and shall be determined as are other questions of fact.”
    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.