Darbie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2010
4 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 883A (Great Lakes Shoreline Mapping Act of 1987) · 43 U.S.C. § 1301 (Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Louisiana · United States v. Alaska · United States v. California · United States v. Maine
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the normal baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea is the low-water line along the coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirvin“all Florida waters inside a line three miles seaward of the coastline along the Gulf of Mexico and inside a line one mile seaward of the coastline along the Atlantic Ocean.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirvin“the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirvin
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.