State of Iowa v. State of Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
147 U.S. 1 · 1893
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2002 · most notably Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino (1964), State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas (1922)
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Buttenuth v. St. Louis Bridge Co. · Dunlieth & Dubuque Bridge Co. v. County of Dubuque
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a navigable river constitutes the boundary between two independent states, the line defining the point at which the jurisdiction of the two separates is well established to be the middle of the main channel of the stream. The interest of each state in the navigation of the river admits of no other line. The preservation by each of its equal rights in the navigation of the stream is the subject of paramount interest.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)t is the free navigation of the river . . . that States demand shall be secured to them”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the middle of the principal [channel], or, rather, the one usually followed.”
2 later decisions 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.