New Jersey v. New York’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 18 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Alabama v. North Carolina (2010), Berg v. County of Allegheny (2000)
41 federal appellate · 18 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 11 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 United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Costello v. United States · Durfee v. Duke · Franklin v. Massachusetts · Cuyler v. Adams
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he silence of the Compact was on the subject of settled law governing avulsion, which the parties' silence showed no intent to modify”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ongressional consent `transforms an interstate compact within [the Compact] Clause into a law of the United States.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must pass over the arguments of the named amici for the reason that ... the party to the case[ ] has in effect renounced them, or at least any benefit they might provide”
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.