Hjelle v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2022
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 43 U.S.C. § 1312 · 43 U.S.C. § 1332
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Edelman v. Jordan · Sierra Club v. Morton · Steffel v. Thompson · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Alaska’s] regulation of certain extraterritorial conduct would pass constitutional muster if its regulations were directed at conserving the crab fishery within Alaska’s waters by regulating crabbing in that area and in order to facilitate enforcement, by prohibiting the possession of crab in the state during the closed season, even if that crab were caught outside the state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hjelle v. Brooks
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.