State of Colorado v. State of Kansas’s Empirical Analysis
320 U.S. 383 · 1943
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Maryland v. Louisiana (1981), State of Georgia v. Pennsylvania R Co (1945)
22 federal appellate · 20 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 Kansas v. State of Colorado · State of Missouri v. State of Illinois · State of Connecticut v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Hinderlider v. La Plata River & Cherry Creek Ditch Co. · 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll of the factors which create equities in favor of one State or the other must be weighed as of the date when the controversy is mooted,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involve the interests of quasi-sovereigns, present complicated and delicate questions, and ... necessitate expert administration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under the common law of Kansas, a riparian owner is entitled to reasonable use of waters of a stream for irrigation, but such use is subject to rights of other riparian owners to a like reasonable use. “Under the common law of Kansas, what is a reasonable use of waters of a stream for irrigation by riparian proprietor must, in each instance, be determined in the light of total supply and total need of all riparian proprietors.” (U 6, 7.)”
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.