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569 U.S. 614 · 2013

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
October 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Relies on Russello v. United States · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Arizona v. California · Montana v. United States · Wyeth v. Levine

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the express terms of the Compact as the best indication of the intent of the parties[.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[i]nterstate compacts are construed as contracts under the principles of contract law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “other interpretive tools to shed light on the intent of the Compact's drafters.”
    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.