United States v. Standard Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
129 federal appellate · 67 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 347 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably California v. Sierra Club (1981), Illinois v. City of Milwaukee (1972)
129 federal appellate · 67 district · 34 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 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 33 U.S.C. § 406 · 33 U.S.C. § 407 · 33 U.S.C. § 408 · 33 U.S.C. § 409 · 33 U.S.C. § 411 · 33 U.S.C. § 431 · 33 U.S.C. § 441
Relies on United States v. Petrillo · United States v. Borden Co. · United States v. Wiltberger · McBoyle v. United States · United States v. Republic Steel Corp.
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 347 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But whatever may be said of the rule of strict construction, it cannot provide a substitute for common sense, precedent, and legislative history.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers * * *,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he word 'refuse' includes all foreign substances and pollutants apart from those 'flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state' into the watercourse.”
7 later decisions 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.