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Ash v. Merlette’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Montana v. United States · Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers · Hardin v. Jordan · United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Railroad Company v. Schurmeir

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “ambiguous only if susceptible to two or more conflicting meanings, both of which are objectively reasonable.”
    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.