Coxe v. . State’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably Appleby v. City of New York (1926), Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. State of New York (1926)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Stuart v. . Palmer · Illinois Cent Co v. State of Illinois City of Chicago · Langdon v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y. · Smith v. . City of Rochester
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For every purpose which may be useful, convenient or necessary to the public, the state has the unquestionable right to make grants in fee or conditionally for the beneficial use of the grantee, or to promote commerce according to their terms. The extensive grant to' the city of New York of the lands under water below the shore line around Manhattan- island clearly comes within this principle, since it was a grant to a municipality, constituting a political division-of the state, for the promotion of the commercial prosperity of the city and consequently of the people of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“grants to the owners of the adjoining uplands, either for beneficial enjoyment or for commercial purposes have long been authorized, and recognized as one of the uses to which the state may lawfully apply such lands.”
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.