State of Arkansas v. State of Tennessee’s Empirical Analysis
310 U.S. 563 · 1940
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1977), New Jersey v. New York (1998)
16 federal appellate · 16 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 State of Virginia v. State of Tennessee · State of Arkansas v. State of Tennessee · Nebraska v. Iowa · State of Louisiana v. State of Mississippi · State of Indiana v. State of Kentucky
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the security of rights, whether of states or individuals, long possession under a claim of title is protected. And there is no controversy in which this great principle may be involved with greater justice and propriety than in a case of disputed boundary.'' Rhode Island v. Massachusetts, 4 How. 591, 639, 11 L.Ed. 1116 (1846). The doctrine of prescription and acquiescence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is established that there has been acquiescence in a long-continued and uninterrupted assertion of dominion and jurisdiction over a given area....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Houston v. Thomas
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.