United States v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Sun Oil Co. v. United States (1978), United States v. Louisiana the Louisiana Boundary Case (1969)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 United States v. California · United States v. California
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to any portion of such boundary line or of any areas claimed to have been reserved under § 5 of the Submerged Lands Act as to which the parties may be unable to agree, either party may apply to the Court at any time for entry of a further supplemental decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“W.). 4 2. The inland waters of San Diego Bay are those enclosed by a straight line from the seaward end of Point Loma (NOS Chart 18772, 32x39'46”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defined as the shore of the mainland and of islands, between the line of mean high water and the line of mean lower low water . . . .”
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.