United States v. Consolidation Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
345 F.3d 409 · 2003
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2020
9 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
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Logan v. Dayton Hudson Corp. · United States v. Davis · United States v. Colorado & Eastern Railroad · Bancamerica Commercial Corporation Asarco Inc v. Mosher Steel of Kansas Inc Trinity Industries Inc
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a fair and equitable allocation [can] only be achieved by comparing [a defendant's] role as a PRP to other PRPs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may allocate response costs ... using such equitable factors as the court determines are appropriate,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n award of prejudgment interest ... is mandatory”
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.