Texas v. Oklahoma (457 U.S. 172)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 14, 1982 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 457 U.S. 172 · 102 S. Ct. 2923
- Decided
- June 14, 1982
- Term
- October Term 1981
- Vote
- 9–0
- Issue area
- Interstate Relations
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Unspecifiable
Opinion excerpt
DECREE The motion for entry of judgment by consent of plaintiff and defendant, with the deletion of paragraph 10 thereof, and as amended with respect to paragraph 7, is granted. It Is Ordered, Adjudged, and Decreed: 1. This judgment determines the boundary line between Texas and Oklahoma along the South bank of the Red River in Grayson County, Texas, from a point on said River as it existed prior to the construction of the Texoma Reservoir Dam (Denison Dam) approximately 1973 feet West of the center line of said Dam, with its meanders, to a point on said River approximately 6103 feet East of the center line of said Dam, upon the Complaint, Answer and agreement of Counsel for Texas and Oklahoma. 2. The source of the boundary line between Texas and Oklahoma from the 100th meridian of longitude to the eastern border of Oklahoma (which encompasses the boundary determined by this judgment) lies in the Treaty of 1819, 8 Stat. 252 (1821), which was construed by the Court in United States v. Texas, 162 U. S. 1 (1895), to be the south bank of the Red River. The Court later confirmed this definition of the boundary in Oklahoma v. Texas, 256 U. S. 70 (1921), and in a later partial decree therein, 261 U. S. 340, 341-342 (1923), defined the South bank as: “. . . the water-washed and relatively permanent elevation or acclivity, commonly called a cut bank, along the southerly side of the…
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