Oklahoma v. New Mexico’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Napoletano v. CIGNA Healthcare of Connecticut, Inc. (1996), State v. Spears (1995)
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 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 Blum v. Stenson · Pierce v. Underwood · Green v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co. · State of Arizona v. State of California · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We previously have pointed out that a congressionally approved compact is both a contract and a statute, and we repeatedly have looked to legislative history and other extrinsic material when required to interpret a statute which is ambiguous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.