State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably Youngstown Mines Corp. v. Prout (1963), Johnson v. Seifert (1960)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 · United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · Hardin v. Jordan · United States v. Holt State Bank · State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not wide enough or long enough to provide a practical route for the transportation of commodities in any direction and does not connect any points between which it would be useful as a practical route for navigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is well settled that the test of navigability to fix ownership of lake beds must be determined as of the date of a state’s admission to the Union and under the federal decisions with reference thereto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not been used for commerce and do not provide practical routes for commerce, and no lake connects points between which they would be useful as a practical route for navigation.”
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.