McCool v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Colorado Water Conservation Board v. Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District · Sears v. Romer · Holcomb v. Jan-Pro Cleaning Systems of Southern Colorado · Ohlson v. Weil · Amax, Inc. v. Colorado Water Quality Control Commission
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agency regulation or rule may not modify or contravene an existing statute, and any regulation that is inconsistent with or contrary to a statute is void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.