Application of Christenson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2017
1 district · 11 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Schroeder v. City of New York · Walker v. City of Hutchinson · County of Freeborn v. Claussen · HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF ST. PAUL v. Greenman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the state’s environmental legislation had given this land ethic the force of law, and imposed on the courts a duty to support the legislative goal of protecting our state’s environmental resources. Vanishing wetlands require, even more today than in 1976 when Bryson was decided, the protection and preservation that environmental legislation was intended to provide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the legislature assigned to the Commissioner of Conservation (now the Department of Resources) the task of supervising a permit system for the use and appropriation of the state’s waters, thereby conserving this valuable resource.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Eigenheer
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.