Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
295 federal appellate · 25 district · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 619 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Parratt v. Taylor (1981), Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. (1981)
295 federal appellate · 25 district · 150 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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. § 1331 · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1401 (Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972) · 33 U.S.C. § 1415
Relies on National Sea Clammers Association v. City of New York E R J
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 619 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether [FWPCA and MPRSA] imply a private right of action independent of the rights explicitly created by the citizens suit provisions of those Acts, 33 U.S.C. § 1415 (g). 2. Whether a private citizen has standing to maintain a federal common law nuisance action for alleged damages sustained resulting from ocean pollution as a general federal question under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 . 3. Whether any federal common law nuisance action for alleged damages sustained resulting from ocean pollution, if available to a private citizen, is not preempted by the present regulatory scheme governing ocean pollution established by [FWPCA and MPRSA],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.