Mumford v. Wardwell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions

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

1. “the new States ... have the same rights, sovereignty and jurisdiction ... as the original States possess within their respective borders.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coastal Petroleum Company, a Florida Corporation, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the State of Florida Department of Natural Resources and the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida v. U.S.S. Agri-Chemicals, a Division of United States Steel Corporation, a Delaware Corporation Authorized to Do Business in Florida, Defendant- Coastal Petroleum Company and the State of Florida Department of Natural Resources and the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida v. International Minerals & Chemical Corporation, Coastal Petroleum Company, a Florida Corporation, the State of Florida, Department of Natural Resources, Etc., Involuntary v. W.R. Grace & Company, Coastal Petroleum Company, a Florida Corporation, the State of Florida, Department of Natural Resources, Involuntary v. Swift Agricultural Chemicals Corp., a Delaware Corporation, Authorized to Do Business in Florida, Now Estech General Chemicals Corporation · In Re Tortorelli

2. “the new States since admitted have the same rights, sovereignty and jurisdiction . . . as the original States possess within their respective borders.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Oregon State Land Board v. Corvallis Sand and Gravel Company Corvallis Sand and Gravel Company