Douglas v. Seacoast Products, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
146 federal appellate · 48 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 401 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey (1978), Hughes v. Oklahoma (1979)
146 federal appellate · 48 district · 47 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 16 U.S.C. § 1081 · 16 U.S.C. § 1811 · 43 U.S.C. § 1311 · 43 U.S.C. § 1314
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Hagans v. Lavine · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul
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 401 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is pure fantasy to talk of 'owning' wild fish, birds, or animals. Neither the States nor the Federal Government ... has title to these creatures until they are reduced to possession by skillful capture.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“States may impose upon federal licensees reasonable, nondiscriminatory conservation and environmental protection measures otherwise within their police power.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`statutory' for purposes of our practice of deciding statutory claims first to avoid unnecessary constitutional adjudications.”
4 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.