United States v. Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1982 · most notably California State Lands Commission v. United States (1982), United States v. Louisiana (1969)
7 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 1301 (Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act) · 43 U.S.C. § 1311 · 43 U.S.C. § 1312
Relies on United States v. California · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · United States v. California · Jefferis v. East Omaha Land Co. · United States v. State of Louisiana
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(n)o definitions are required by this Court and there is no need to resort to international law; Texas has simply been given that amount of submerged land it owned when it entered the Union.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Texas v. Louisiana“For the purpose of delimiting the territorial sea, the outermost permanent harbour works which form an integral part of the harbour system shall be regarded as forming part of the coast.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Texas v. Louisiana
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.