Feldhut v. Brummitt’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1956
5 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 Clark v. Allaman · Williams v. Bricker · McNutt v. Nellans · Linscott v. Moseman · Ireton v. Thomas
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are urged to apply this [arid states’] doctrine to irrigation ditches in this state. If this is to be done, it must be on the basis that the irrigation ditch is plainly observable to inspection; and could not be placed on the basis chiefly argued by appellant. He would put it on the ground that irrigation is necessary in western Kansas, and that we should adopt the Idaho doctrine. We could not do that. The situation in our state is peculiar. In eastern Kansas the Idaho or arid states’ doctrine would be entirely inappropriate; in central Kansas it would be of doubtful propriety; in the extreme parts of western Kansas it might do very well; but no court has power to divide this state, like all Gaul, into three parts, and impose a peculiar doctrine upon our western frontier.” (p. 129.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frizell v. Bindley
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.