Watt v. Holmes Limestone Co’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Saideh Fisher v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1996), Acewicz v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1993)
98 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 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 Holmes Limestone Co. v. Andrus
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any action by the Secretary promulgating national rules or regulations ... shall be subject to judicial review in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit. Any other action constituting rulemaking by the Secretary shall be subject to judicial review only by the United States District Court for the District in which the surface coal mining operation is located____ A petition for review of any agency action subject to judicial review shall be filed in the appropriate Court within sixty days from the date of such action, or after such date if the petition is based solely on grounds arising after the sixtieth day. Any such petition may be made by any person who participated and who is aggrieved by the action of the Secretary.”
1 later decision 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.