State of Michigan v. State of Wisconsin’s Empirical Analysis
270 U.S. 295 · 1926
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1977), City of Sherrill New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York et al. (2005)
10 federal appellate · 21 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 Virginia v. State of Tennessee · Smith v. Gale · State of Louisiana v. State of Mississippi · State of Indiana v. State of Kentucky · Hunnicutt v. Peyton
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule, long settled and never doubted by this court, is that long acquiescence by one state in the possession of territory by another and in the exercise of sovereignty and dominion over it is conclusive of the latter’s title and rightful authority.” Michigan v. Wisconsin, (1926) 270 U.S. 295, 808 , 46 S.Ct. 290, 294 , 70 L.Ed. 595 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be drawn along the line relied upon for a long period of time by the two school districts and by other county agencies. " (Emphasis supplied.) By analogy to boundary disputes between two states, the court invoked "`a principle of public law, universally recognized, that long acquiescence in the possession of territory, and in the exercise of dominion and sovereignty over it, is conclusive of the nation's title and rightful authority.'”
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.