Ohio v. Kentucky’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably County of Oneida New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State New York (1985), Nebraska v. Wyoming (1993)
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Conley v. Gibson · Cruz v. Hauck · Ohio v. Kentucky · State of Virginia v. State of Tennessee · State of Arkansas v. State of Tennessee
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]roceedings under this Court's original jurisdiction are basically equitable in nature, and a claim not technically precluded nonetheless may be foreclosed by acquiescence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule, long settled and never doubted by this court, is that long acquiescence by one state in the possession of territory by another and in the exercise of sovereignty and dominion over it is conclusive of the latter’s title and rightful authority.” Michigan v. Wisconsin, (1926) 270 U.S. 295, 808 , 46 S.Ct. 290, 294 , 70 L.Ed. 595 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is the low-water mark on the northerly side of the Ohio River as it existed in the year 1792”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ohio v. Kentucky
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.