36 F. Supp. 2d 375 - Informed Citizens United, Inc. v. USX Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1251 · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1365
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Milhollin · Gwaltney of Smithfield, Ltd. v. Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. · Tull v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each day the pollutant remains in the wetlands without a permit constitutes an additional day of violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If citizens suits were barred merely because any illegal ditching and drainage of a wetland tract was completed before it might reasonably be discovered, violators would have a powerful incentive to conceal their activities from public and private scrutiny — which would lead to serious problems in public and private enforcement of the Clean Water Act.”
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.