Hawksbill Sea Turtle v. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.3d 461 · 1997
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Jones v. Bock (2007), McTernan v. City of York (2009)
24 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 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 Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Montana v. United States · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the previous determination was necessary to the decision, (2) the identical issue was previously litigated, (3) the issue was decided in a decision that [was] [sic ] final, valid, and on the merits, and (4) the party that is being precluded from relitigating the issue was adequately represented in the previous action.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[FJindings made in granting or denying preliminary injunctions can have preclusive effect if the circumstances make it likely that the findings are 'sufficiently firm’ to persuade the court that there is no compelling reason for permitting them to be litigated again.”); Commodity Futures Trading Comm’n v. Bd. of Trade, 701 F.2d 653, 657 (7th Cir.1983) (findings made in preliminary injunction decisions have pre-clusive effect”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“) 24 § 3.1.1.1. 2. Five months after the hurricane, many low-income Virgin Island residents were still living in emergency shelters. Some individuals were inhabiting condemned facilities, including major buildings of the Warren E. Brown public housing apartments and individual homes. A great need for emergency shelter existed. Id. § TO. 3. Pursuant to the Stafford Act, FEMA made funds available to the Virgin Island Housing Authority (”
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.