Utah v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 24 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably District of Columbia v. Air Florida, Inc. (1984), Phillips Petroleum Company v. Mississippi US (1988)
57 federal appellate · 24 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 14 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
Relies on Shively v. Bowlby · The Daniel Ball · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · United States v. Oregon · United States v. Utah
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the fact that the Great Salt Lake is not part of a navigable interstate or international commercial highway in no way interferes with the principle of public ownership of its bed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The lake was used as a highway and that is the gist of the federal test." Utah, supra, p. 11, 91 S.Ct. p. 1776.”
4 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.