Illinois v. City of Milwaukee’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
565 federal appellate · 235 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,472 later decisions (95 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Edelman v. Jordan (1974), Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. (1981)
565 federal appellate · 235 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 13 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. § 661 (Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 742A (Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956) · 16 U.S.C. § 760E · 28 U.S.C. § 1251 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1407 · 33 U.S.C. § 1151
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co.
Cited together with Erie Co v. Tompkins · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · City of Milwaukee v. Illinois · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern 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 1,472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not only the character of the parties that requires us to apply federal law.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Sec. 1331 jurisdiction will support claims founded upon federal common law as well as those of a statutory origin.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States,”
12 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.