Shields v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.3d 832 · 2002
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably National Audubon Society, Inc. v. Davis (2002), LeClerc v. Webb (2003)
6 federal appellate · 2 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 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1538 (§ 9 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1540 (§ 11 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Rhode Island v. Narragansett Indian Tribe · United Transportation Union v. Foster · Orix Credit Alliance, Inc. v. Wolfe
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Plaintiff's] claim that he stopped pumping water from the aquifer in response to [threats of litigation] might establish a controversy, if not for their emptiness exposed by years of inactivity since the alleged `threats' were made and the lack of evidence that a threat was in fact made[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“suit does not present justiciable issues and the district court was without jurisdiction to decide the case.” 10 . The Private Defendants argue that the Plaintiffs’ filing of a declaratory judgment action in this Court is a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be ripe for decision, meaning that it must not be premature or speculative.”
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.