United States v. Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon (2006), 619 F. Supp. 162 - United States v. Conservation Chemical Co. (1985)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Colorado v. New Mexico · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · United States v. State of Louisiana · Geofroy v. Riggs · State of Louisiana v. State of Mississippi
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the low-water line along the coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal State.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Darbie v. State · State v. Kirvin“A. "Coastline" is the low water line that meets the shore along the coast of Florida which is in direct contact with the open sea. A coastline can never begin in open water; a coastline, in plain terms, is where the water meets the land. B. "Florida waters" are those waters in the Atlantic Ocean out to three (3) geographic miles from the coastline and in the Gulf of Mexico out to three (3) marine leagues, or 9 geographic miles, or approximately 10.376 statute miles, from the coastline. C. "Nearshore and inshore waters" are those State waters within one (1) geographic mile of the coastline in the Atlantic Ocean and three (3) geographic miles of the coastline in the Gulf of Mexico.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kirvin“Under generally accepted principles of international law, the navigable sea is divided into three zones.... Nearest to the nation’s shores are its inland, or internal waters. These are subject to the complete sovereignty of the nation. ... Beyond the inland waters, and measured from their seaward edge, is a belt known as the marginal, or territorial sea. Within it the coastal nation may exercise extensive control but cannot deny the right of innocent passage to foreign nations. Outside the territorial sea are the high seas, tvhich are international waters not subject to the dominion of any single nation.”
1 later decision 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.