United States v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2006
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 1301 (Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act)
Relies on United States v. California · United States v. State of Louisiana · State of Virginia v. State of Tennessee · United States v. Texas · State of Alabama v. State of Texas State of Rhode Island
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is . . . declared to be in the public interest that (1) title to and ownership of the lands beneath navigable waters within the boundaries of the respective States . . . be, and they are, . . . recognized, confirmed, established, and vested in and assigned to the respective States . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Now, all I have to say is this: this constitution of Arkansas has been before us for four weeks, fairly printed. . . . I think that this constitution is above all suspicion, and I am a little scrupulous and particular about any constitution I am called upon to vote for. Now, with a constitution with which I can find no fault, after it has been so long before us, I cannot for a moment conceive that there has not been time enough allowed for all of us to become acquainted with it. And as in equity that is presumed to be done which should be done, which ought to be done, therefore it is to be presumed that there is not a man in this House who does not know all about this constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[2] This suit was first brought against Louisiana by the United States, United States v. Louisiana, 350 U. S. 990 , invoking our original jurisdiction under Art. III, § 2, cl. 2, of the Constitution, to determine whether Louisiana's boundary when it became a member of the Union extended three leagues or more into the Gulf, as Louisiana claimed, so as to entitle it to the maximum three-league grant of the Submerged Lands Act. After argument on the Government's motion for judgment against Louisiana, we suggested that the interests of all the Gulf States under the Act were so related,”
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.