George v. Beavark, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.2d 977 · 1968
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Adams v. Montana Power Co. (1975), 315 F. Supp. 238 - Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Inc. v. Bartlett (1970)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. · The Daniel Ball · United States v. Holt State Bank · The Propeller Genesee Chief Pierce Kelsey Cheney Hunter Swan Clark Strong v. Fitzhugh Littlejohn Peck · United States v. Oregon
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The test of navigability has frequently been stated by this Court. In The Daniel Ball ... the Court said: “Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as high ways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.” ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have mentioned the trend toward liberality in the treatment of admiralty jurisdiction but we are wary of the unnecessary extension of any rule on navigability, particularly when it could well lead to absurdity. There are many fishing streams [and recreational lakes] throughout the country which are not usable as highways for commerce or transportation in the customary mode.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the true test of the navigability of a stream does not depend on the mode by which commerce is, or may be, conducted, nor the difficulties attending navigation,' and that `it would be a narrow rule to hold that in this country, unless a river was capable of being navigated by steam or sail vessels, it could not be treated as a public highway.'”
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.