Central Railroad Company of New Jersey v. Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City’s Empirical Analysis
209 U.S. 473 · 1908
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2002 · most notably Miller Bros. v. Maryland (1954), Exploration Co. v. United States (1918)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 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 Shively v. Bowlby · Union Refrigerator Transit Company v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · McCready v. Virginia · Henderson Bridge Co v. City of Henderson · Delaware Lackawanna Western Railroad Company v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The state of New Jersey shall have the exclusive right of property in and to the land under water, Vying west of the middle of the hay of New York * * (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the often-expressed purpose of the appointment of the commissioner[s] and of the agreement to settle the territorial limits and jurisdiction must mean, by territorial limits, sovereignty, and by jurisdiction something less. It is suggested that jurisdiction is used in a broader sense in the second article, and that may be true so far as concerns ... Ellis island[]. But the provision there is that New York shall retain its “present” jurisdiction over [Ellis Island], and would seem on its face simply to be intended to preserve the status quo ante, whatever it may be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“present' jurisdiction over them, . . . would seem on its face simply to be intended to preserve the status quo ante, whatever that may be.'' Ibid. In the current litigation, New York and New Jersey agree that the effect of Article Second was to recognize that New York had obtained sovereign authority over all of the Islands in the waters between the two States, including Ellis Island, and that reference to New York's retention of”
1 later decision 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.