State of New Jersey v. State of Delaware’s Empirical Analysis
291 U.S. 361 · 1934
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 12 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably State of Texas v. State of Florida (1939), United States v. California (1947)
7 federal appellate · 12 district · 33 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 Shively v. Bowlby · Scranton v. Wheeler · Merrit Martin v. William C Waddell · Yates v. Milwaukee · United States Greathouse v. Dern
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Within the twelve mile circle, the river and the subaqueous soil thereof up to low water mark on the easterly or New Jersey side will be adjudged to belong to the State of Delaware, subject to the Compact of 1905.” (291 ¶. 8. at page 385, 54 8. Ct. at page 415; emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Art. VII. Each State may, on its own side of the river, continue to exercise riparian jurisdiction of every kind and nature, and to make grants, leases, and conveyances of riparian lands and rights under the laws of the respective States. "Art. VIII. Nothing herein contained shall affect the territorial limits, rights, or jurisdiction of either State of, in, or over the Delaware River, or the ownership of the subaqueous soil thereof, except as herein expressly set forth." Act of Jan. 24, 1907, 34 Stat. 860 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The letters patent to the Duke of York and the grant from York to Penn were not for private uses solely, but for purposes of government * * *. The grant from Charles II to York was upon its face an instrument of government. The feoffments from York to Penn were in furtherance of kindred ends.” (New Jersey v. Delaware, 291 U.S. at 373 , 54 S.Ct. at 411 .)”
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.