Parks v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2025
20 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 Remmer v. United States · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · The Daniel Ball
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[We find the public trust doctrine manifested in the South Dakota{] Environmental Protection Act, authorizing legal action to protect 'the air, water and other natural resources and the public trust therein from pollution, impairment or destruction.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the burden of ... asserting the public trust lies with the party asserting it.”
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.