Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
926 federal appellate · 360 district · 359 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,862 later decisions (97 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Lopez (1995), Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City (1985)
926 federal appellate · 360 district · 359 state decisions — followed in 35 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 16 U.S.C. § 742J · 28 U.S.C. § 1252 · 30 U.S.C. § 1201 (Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act of 1990) · 30 U.S.C. § 1202 · 30 U.S.C. § 1211 · 30 U.S.C. § 1251 · 30 U.S.C. § 1252 · 30 U.S.C. § 1253
Relies on Parratt v. Taylor · Boddie v. Connecticut · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Cited together with United States v. Lopez · New York v. United States · Agins v. City of Tiburon · National League of Cities v. Usery · Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
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 2,862 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“commandee[r] the legislative processes of the States by directly compelling them to enact and enforce a federal regulatory program.”
178 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably adapted to the end permitted by the Constitution.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to structure integral operations in areas of traditional governmental functions.”
9 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.