Ohio v. Kentucky’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014
13 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 Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · Cruz v. Hauck · Ohio v. Kentucky · Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe · 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the boundary line . . . to be the low-water mark on the northerly shore of the Ohio River as it existed in 1792,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Illinois v. Kentucky“Kentucky sources themselves, in recent years, have made reference to the 1792 low-water mark as the boundary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Illinois v. Kentucky“the present low-water mark on the Illinois side of the river [to be] farther north than it was in 1792”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Illinois 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.