Fitzgerald v. Baxter State Park Authority’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2025
1 district · 22 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 Sierra Club v. Morton · Holt v. College of Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons · Lewiston Firefighters Ass'n, Local 785 v. City of Lewiston · Famous Knitwear Corp. v. Drug Fair, Inc. · Central Maine Power Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
Most-quoted passages
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“The membership in the Authority, obviously selected by Governor Baxter himself and ratified by him by his subsequent gifts, consists of the State's principal officers in the professions of the law, forestry, and fish and wildlife management. Both Governor Baxter and the Legislature placed their confidence in the judgment and integrity of those high state officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must administer the trust like any private trustees of a charitable trust, exercising their best judgment, informed by the Attorney General's advice on any legal question and, where necessary, by instructions of a court of equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This area [the Park] is to be maintained primarily as a Wilderness and recreational purposes are to be regarded as of secondary importance and shall not encroach upon the main objective of this area which is to be `Forever Wild'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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