State of Texas v. State of Florida’s Empirical Analysis
306 U.S. 398 · 1939
Citation profile
194 federal appellate · 59 district · 206 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 799 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Culbertson (1949), Maryland v. Louisiana (1981)
194 federal appellate · 59 district · 206 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. State of West Virginia State of Ohio · Nashville St Ry v. Wallace · Milwaukee County v. M. E. White Co.
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 799 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essential of the bill in the nature of interpleader is that it calls upon the court to exercise its jurisdiction to guard against the risks of loss from the prosecution in independent suits of rival claims where the plaintiff himself claims an interest in the property or fund which is subjected to the risk.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the purpose to make the place of residence one's home.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the avoidance of the burden of unnecessary litigation or the risk of loss by the establishment of multiple liability when only a single obligation is owing.”
4 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.