State of New Jersey v. State of New York’s Empirical Analysis
283 U.S. 336 · 1931
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 9 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 243 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Arizona v. California (1983), Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union (1981)
77 federal appellate · 9 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 10 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. · Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co. · State of Connecticut v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · State of Missouri v. State of 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 243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject to the paramount authority of Congress.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Master finds that the taking of 600 million gallons daily from the tributaries will not materially affect the River or its sanitary condition, or as a source of municipal water supply, or for industrial uses, or for agriculture, or for the fisheries of shad. The effect or the use for recreation and upon its reputation in that regard will be somewhat more serious, as will be the effect of increased salinity of the River upon the oyster fisheries. The total is found to be greater than New Jersey ought to bear, but the damage can be removed by reducing the draft of New York to 440 million gallons daily . . .” 283 U.S. at 345 , 51 S.Ct. at 480.”
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.