Texas v. New Mexico’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 27 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno (1990), Gallegos v. Pueblo of Tesuque (2002)
42 federal appellate · 27 district · 39 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 · Petty v. Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission · United States v. Mississippi · Pierce v. United States · The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantationss v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a legal document that must be construed and applied in accordance with its terms,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It remains a legal document that must be construed and applied in accordance with its terms. There is nothing in the nature of compacts generally or of this Compact in particular that counsels against . . . ordering future performance called for by the Compact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[SJpecific performance ... [is] an equitable remedy that requires some attention to the relative benefits and burdens that the parties may enjoy or suffer as compared with a legal remedy in damages.”); Javierre v. Cent. Altagracia, 217 U.S. 502 , 508, 30 S.Ct. 598 , 54 L.Ed. 859 (1910) (”
1 later decision 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.