Commonwealth of Kentucky v. State of Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 163 · 1930
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2010 · most notably State Dyer v. Sims (1951), United States v. Washington (1978)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 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 Larson v. State of South Dakota · Commonwealth of Virginia v. State of West Virginia · Virginia v. West Virginia
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be deemed to represent all its citizens.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the States themselves are before this Court for the determination of a controversy between them, neither can determine their rights inter sese, and this Court must pass upon every question essential to such a determination. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he state of Indiana, while desiring to perform its contract, is not going on with its performance because of a suit brought by its citizens in its own court. There is thus a controversy between the states, although a limited one.”
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.