Alcorn v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2018
2 district · 3 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
Relies on Cuyler v. Adams · Carchman v. Nash New Jersey Department of Corrections · Texas v. New Mexico · McComb v. Wambaugh · Kansas City Area Transportation Authority v. Missouri
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot be modified uni laterally by state legislation and take precedence over conflicting state law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the Compact creating the MWAA was congressionally sanctioned in accordance with the Compact Clause (“No state shall, without the consent of Congress ... enter into any agreement or compact with another state.” Art. I, § 10, cl. 3.), it is a federal law subject to federal construction, notwithstanding its genesis in the enabling acts of Virginia and the District of Columbia.”
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.