Georgia v. South Carolina’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably New Jersey v. New York (1998), Club Italia Soccer & Sports Organization, Inc. v. Charter Township of Shelby (2006)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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 Durfee v. Duke · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Martin v. Wilks · Tompkins v. Texas · Knight v. United Land Ass'n
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the bed is changed by the natural and gradual processes known as erosion and accretion, the boundary follows the varying course of the stream.”); Nebraska v. Iowa, 143 U.S. 359 , 360, 12 S.Ct. 396 , 36 L.Ed. 186 (1892) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“was not caused by either of the adjoining States, but by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.'' Under the common law, a littoral owner, like the United States in the instant case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[L]ong acquiescence in the practical location of an interstate boundary, and possession in accordance therewith, often has been used as an aid in resolving boundary disputes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Illinois v. Kentucky
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.