Pitman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.2d 975 · 1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Barnes v. United States (1976), Owen v. United States (1988)
4 federal appellate ·
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 United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · United States v. Cress · Yearsley v. W. A. Ross Construction Co. · Costello v. United States · United States v. Twin City Power Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based upon the finding that the Government’s actions had raised the Missouri River above its ordinary high-water mark and directly caused the destruction of plaintiffs land.” Pitman v. United States, 198 Ct. Cl. 82, 87 , 457 F.2d 975, 977 (1972). The navigation servitude,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lentze Marina, Inc.“Thus, while a riparian owner has a right to have navigable waters come to him unchanged in their natural condition as against other riparian owners, he has no such right against the paramount power of the United States to improve navigation. [Citing cases.]”
1 later decision 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.