Needham v. D&c’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. v. Florida Gulf Coast Building & Construction Trades Council · United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc. · United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · The Daniel Ball · Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permit the federal government to impose regulations over `tributaries' that are neither themselves navigable nor truly adjacent to navigable waters”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the United States may not simply impose regulations over puddles, sewers, roadside ditches, and the like”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to avoid such problems unless such construction is plainly contrary to the intent of Congress.”
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.