United States v. Plaza Health Laboratories, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.3d 643 · 1993
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter v. Cedar Point Oil Co. (1996), United States v. Fields (1997)
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1251 · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1319 · 33 U.S.C. § 1342 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362 · 33 U.S.C. § 401 · 33 U.S.C. § 407 · 33 U.S.C. § 411
Relies on United States v. Turkette · Chiarella v. United States · City of Burlington v. Dague · United States v. Dotterweich · Harris v. McRae
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]efore a man can be punished as a criminal under the Federal law his case must be 'plainly and unmistakably' within the provisions of some statute.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any discernable, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oregon Natural Desert Association Rest the West Portland Audubon Society Trout Unlimited Oregon Wildlife Federation Northwest Environmental Defense Center Oregon Natural Resources Council Pacific Rivers Council Oregon Natural Resources Coalition, and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. Michael P. Dombeck, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the United States Forest Service, Defendant-Third Party Oregon Natural Desert Association Rest the West Portland Audubon Society Trout Unlimited Oregon Wildlife Federation Northwest Environmental Defense Center Oregon Natural Resources Council Pacific Rivers Council Oregon Natural Resources Coalition, and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. Jack Ward Thomas, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the United States Forest Service, and Eastern Oregon Public Land Coalition Robert Burril, Grant County, a Political Subdivision of the State of Oregon, Defendants-Intervenors/third Party · United States v. West Indies Transport, Inc.“[I]f every discharge involving humans were to be considered a “discharge from a point source[,]” the statute’s lengthy definition of “point source” would have been unnecessary. It is elemental that congress does not add unnecessary words to statutes. Had congress intended to punish any human being who polluted navigational waters, it could readily have said: “any person who places pollutants in navigable waters without a permit is guilty of a crime.””
3 later decisions 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.