Commonwealth of Virginia v. State of West Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
220 U.S. 1 · 1911
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. State of West Virginia State of Ohio (1923)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 State of Kansas v. State of Colorado · United States v. Beebe · United States v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co. · State of Louisiana Elliott v. Jumel · United States v. State of North Carolina
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the court may regulate and mould the process it uses in such a manner as in its judgment will best promote the purposes of justice.' " Id., at ----, 135 S.Ct., at 1052 (quoting Kentucky v. Dennison, 24 How. 66 , 98, 16 L.Ed. 717 (1861) ). We must approach interstate disputes "in the untechnical spirit proper for dealing with a quasi-international controversy, remembering that there is no municipal code governing the matter, and that this court may be called on to adjust differences that cannot be dealt with by Congress or disposed of by the legislature of either State alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Florida v. Georgia
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.