United States v. Grand River Dam Authority’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 17 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014 · most notably United States v. Virginia Electric & Power Co. (1961), United States v. Cherokee Nation of Okla. (1987)
62 federal appellate · 17 district · 23 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
Relies on United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · United States ex rel. Tennessee Valley Authority v. Powelson · United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co. · United States v. Cress · Omnia Commercial Co. 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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appropriation of property and the frustration of an enterprize by reason of the exercise of a superior governmental power.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is for Congress alone to decide whether a particular project, by itself or as part of a comprehensive scheme, will have such a beneficial effect on the arteries of interstate commerce____ That determination is legislative in character ... the fact that the project [has] a multiple purpose [is] irrelevant to the constitutional issue ... as [is] the fact that power was expected to pay the way ... “[t]he fact that ends other than [navigation] will also be served, or that [navigation] may be relatively of lesser importance, does not invalidate the exercise of authority conferred on Congress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the United States appropriates the flow either of a navigable or a nonnavigable stream pursuant to its superior power under the Commerce Clause, it is exercising established prerogatives and is beholden to no one.”
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.