Olson v. Bedke’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2000
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 Morgan v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · Carrington v. Crandall · Eliason v. Eliason · Nab v. Hills · Collins v. Parkinson
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.
“Assuming as the trial court did in granting the motion for summary judgment that respondents Bedke had failed to use the full decreed water rights of the Raft River appurtenant to this property as alleged in the complaint, the unused water rights could be forfeited by non-use prior to the end of the lease, to the substantial injury of the reversionary interest. I.C. § 42-222(2).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All rights to the use of water acquired under this chapter or otherwise shall be lost and forfeited by a failure for the term of five (5) years to apply it to the beneficial use for which it was appropriated....”
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.