Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. State of New York’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 65 · 1926
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1977), United States v. Oregon (1935)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Shively v. Bowlby · Hardin v. Jordan · United States v. Holt State Bank · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.“The dominion over navigable waters, and property in the soil under them, are so identified with the exercise of the sovereign powers of government that a' presumption against their separation from sovereignty must be indulged, in construing all grants by. the sovereign, of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Long acquiescence in the possession of territory and the exercise of dominion and sovereignty over it may have a controlling effect in the determination of a disputed boundary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he rights of property and dominion in the lands discovered by those acting under royal authority were held to vest in the Crown,”
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.