373 F. Supp. 665 - United States v. Holland’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers (2001), Avoyelles Sportsmen's League, Inc. v. Marsh (1983)
21 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1451 (Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 1452 · 16 U.S.C. § 1456 · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1252 · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1344 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362
Relies on Gibbons v. Ogden · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · United States v. Darby · Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States · United States v. Butler
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the waters of the United States, including the territorial seas.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““1. Congress by defining the term ‘navigable waters’ in Section 502(7) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, 86 Stat. 816 , 33 U.S.C. Sections 1251 , et seq. (the ‘Water Act’) to mean ‘the waters of the United States, including the territorial seas,’ asserted federal jurisdiction over the nation’s waters to the maximum extent permissible under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Accordingly, as used in the Water Act, the term is not limited to the traditional tests of navigability.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged.”
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.