Wyoming v. Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
244 federal appellate · 95 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 744 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc (2000), Holmes v. Securities Investor Protection Corporation (1992)
244 federal appellate · 95 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.
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 744 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“demonstrably justified by a valid factor unrelated to economic protectionism.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage“direct injury in the form of a loss of specific tax revenues”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a fundamentally different piece of legislation”
3 later decisions 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.