State of Connecticut v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 660 · 1931
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 98 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 365 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Illinois v. City of Milwaukee (1972), Nebraska v. Wyoming (1993)
75 federal appellate · 98 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 11 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 State of Kansas v. State of Colorado · United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co. · State of Wisconsin v. State of Illinois · People of State of New Yrok v. State of New Jersey
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 365 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will not be granted against something merely feared as liable to occur at some indefinite time in the future.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[b]efore this court can be moved to exercise its extraordinary power under the Constitution to control the conduct of one State at the suit of another,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not governed by the same rules of [state] law that are applied for the solution of similar questions of private right.”
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.