Ohio v. Wyandotte Chemicals Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 27 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions (50 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson (1980), Maryland v. Louisiana (1981)
72 federal appellate · 27 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 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 16 U.S.C. § 665 · 28 U.S.C. § 1251 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 33 U.S.C. § 1151 · 33 U.S.C. § 403 · 33 U.S.C. § 407 · 42 U.S.C. § 4331 (§ 101 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Massachusetts v. Mellon · Cohens v. Virginia · State of Georgia v. Pennsylvania R Co
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ohio is raising factual questions that are essentially ones of first impression to the scientists. The notion that appellate judges, even with the assistance of a most competent Special Master, might appropriately undertake at this time to unravel these complexities is, to say the least, unrealistic. Nor would it suffice to impose on Ohio an unusually high standard of proof. That . would not lessen the complexity of the task of preparing responsibly to exercise our judgment, or the serious drain on the resources of this Court it would entail.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) The Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States. "(b) The Supreme Court shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction of: "(1) All actions or proceedings to which ambassadors, other public ministers, consuls, or vice consuls of foreign states are parties; "(2) All controversies between the United States and a State; "(3) All actions or proceedings by a State against the citizens of another State or against aliens.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“structur[e] ... as an appellate tribunal,”
3 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.