McMichael v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.2d 283 · 1965
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2011
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 16 U.S.C. § 1131 (Wilderness Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 1133 · 16 U.S.C. § 475 · 16 U.S.C. § 528 (Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960) · 16 U.S.C. § 551 (Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989)
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Secretary of Agriculture shall make provisions for the protection against destruction by fire and depredations upon the * * * national forests * * * and he may make such rules and regulations * * * as will insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction; and any violation of * * * such rules and regulations shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here shall be no commercial enterprise and no permanent road within any wilderness area designated by this chapter and, except as necessary to meet minimum requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of this chapter (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area), there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such area.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is the policy of the Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation * * *. The purpose of this Act are declared to be supplemental to, but not in derogation of, the purposes for which the national forests were established as set forth in the Act of June 4,1897 (16 U.S.C. 475).””
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.