The State of Missouri v. The State of Iowa the State of Iowa’s Empirical Analysis
48 U.S. 660 · 1849
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2002 · most notably Hutto v. Finney (1979), Maher v. Gagne (1980)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 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.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In February, 1831, the state of Missouri, by a memorial from the legislature to congress, petitioned the United States for an addition of the country west of the line running from the mouth of the Kansas north, and between said line and the Missouri river, alleging that it was a small slip of land that had been acquired, by the treaty of June 3, 1825, from the Kansas Indians. The petition declared that the line from the mouth of the Kansas north was about one hundred miles long; that the country was settled, and rapidly settling, to its utmost verge; and that, as the Missouri river was the only great highway of this region, and could not be reached through a country inhabited by Indians,' and being without roads, a cession of it to that state was necessary and proper. June 7,1836, congress acceded to the request of Missouri, and granted to that state all jurisdiction over the lands lying between its then western line and the Missouri river; making the river the western boundary. But the accession was not to take effect until the Indian title to the country was extinguished.””
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.