Minnesota v. Alexander, Secretary of the Army, Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 320 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 369 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Silkwood v. Corporation (1984), Manalapan Realty v. Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan (1995)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 320 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. § 1254 · 33 U.S.C. § 1323 · 33 U.S.C. § 1344
Relies on Environmental Protection Agency v. California Ex Rel. State Water Resources Control Board · City of Detroit v. Murray Corp. of America · State of Minnesota, by Its Attorney General, Warren Spannaus, and Its Pollution Control Agency v. Martin R. Hoffman, as Secretary of the Army · City of Detroit and County of Wayne v. The Murray Corporation of America, a Delaware Corporation, and United States of America, Intervenor
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 369 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dredged or fill material into the navigable waters at specified disposal sites”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.