Texas v. New Mexico’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 17 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Wyoming v. Oklahoma (1992), Alabama v. North Carolina (2010)
36 federal appellate · 17 district · 35 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 Maryland v. Louisiana · Illinois v. City of Milwaukee · Cuyler v. Adams · State of Arizona v. State of California · State of Kansas v. State of Colorado
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In recent years, we have consistently interpreted 28 U.S.C. § 1251(a) as providing us with substantial discretion to make case-by-case judgments as to the practical necessity of an original forum in this Court for particular disputes within our constitutional original jurisdiction. See Maryland v. Louisiana, 451 U.S. 725 , 743 [101 S.Ct. 2114, 2127, 68 L.Ed.2d 576] (1981); Ohio v. Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., 401 U.S. 493, 499 [91 S.Ct. 1005, 1010, 28 L.Ed.2d 256] (1971). We exercise that discretion with an eye to promoting the most effective functioning of this Court within the overall federal system.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The model case for invocation of this Court's original jurisdiction is a dispute between States of such seriousness that it would amount to casus belli if the States were fully sovereign,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[U]nless the compact to which Congress has consented is somehow unconstitutional, no court may order relief inconsistent with its express terms”
3 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.