Driscoll v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
181 F.3d 1285 · 1999
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Headwaters Inc Oregon Natural Resources Council Action v. Talent Irrigation District (2001), Parker v. Scrap Metal Processors, Inc. (2004)
11 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1342 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362 · 33 U.S.C. § 1365
Relies on Environmental Protection Agency v. California Ex Rel. State Water Resources Control Board · Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter v. Cedar Point Oil Co. · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Costle · Hughey v. JMS Development Corp. · Stream Pollution Control Board of the State of Indiana, and Zarko Sekerez, Proposed Intervenor v. United States Steel Corporation
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container ... from which pollutants are or may be discharged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the legislature declined to abandon the permit requirement[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ditches and canals, as well as streams and creeks”
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.