United States v. Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 12 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Maryland v. Louisiana (1981)
62 federal appellate · 12 district · 36 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2152 · 19 U.S.C. § 1701 · 33 U.S.C. § 151 · 43 U.S.C. § 1301 (Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act) · 43 U.S.C. § 1302 · 43 U.S.C. § 1311 · 43 U.S.C. § 1312 · 43 U.S.C. § 1314
Relies on Shively v. Bowlby · De Veau v. Braisted · United States v. California · Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al.
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) all lands within the boundaries of each of the respective States which are covered by nontidal waters that were navigable under the laws of the United States at the time such States became a member of the Union, or acquired sovereignty over such lands and waters thereafter, up to the ordinary high water mark as heretofore or hereafter modified by accretion, erosion, and reliction; "(2) all lands permanently or periodically covered by tidal waters up to but not above the line of mean high tide and seaward to a line three geographical miles distant from the coast line of each such State and to the boundary line of each such State where in any case such boundary as it existed at the time such State became a member of the Union, or as heretofore approved by Congress, extends seaward (or into the Gulf of Mexico) beyond three geographical miles, and "(3) all filled in, made, or reclaimed lands which formerly were lands beneath navigable waters, as hereinabove defined.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘To confirm and establish the titles of the States to lands beneath navigable waters within State boundaries and to the natural resources within such lands and waters, to provide for the use and control of said lands and resources, and to confirm the jurisdiction and control of the United States over the natural resources of the seabed of the Continental Shelf seaward of State boundaries.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“meaning the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters; * * *”
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.