Cuyler v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
271 federal appellate · 86 district · 618 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,243 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Hess v. Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (1994), Alabama v. Michael Herman Bozeman (2001)
271 federal appellate · 86 district · 618 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States of America Ex Rel. Frank Esola, 53517 v. Ronald M. Groomes, Superintendent (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Hagans v. Lavine · Maine v. Thiboutot · Harris v. McRae · United States v. Mauro
Cited together with United States v. Mauro · Carchman v. Nash New Jersey Department of Corrections · Michigan v. Doran · United States Steel Corporation v. Multistate Tax Commission · State Dyer v. Sims
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 1,243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“congressional consent transforms an interstate compact within [the Compact] Clause into a law of the United States”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a congressionally sanctioned interstate compact the interpretation of which presents a question of federal law.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Allen · Crosland v. State“No State shall, without the Consent of Congress ... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State ....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.