Secretary of the Interior v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 49 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 332 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Amoco Production Co. v. Village of Gambell (1987), Bowsher v. Synar (1986)
119 federal appellate · 49 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCalifornia v. Watt (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1451 (Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 1452 · 16 U.S.C. § 1453 · 16 U.S.C. § 1455 · 16 U.S.C. § 1456 · 16 U.S.C. § 1456A · 16 U.S.C. § 1463 · 16 U.S.C. § 1463A
Relies on United States v. Harriss · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Watt v. Alaska · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · Bob Jones University 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 332 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by purchasing a lease, lessees acquire no right to do anything more. Under the plain language of OCSLA, the purchase of a lease entails no right to proceed with full exploration, development, or production ...; the lessee acquires only a priority in submitting plans to conduct these activities.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if he determines, after having provided the opportunity for consultation, that they provide for a reasonable balance between the national interest and the well-being of the citizens of the affected State.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Each stage involves separate regulatory review that may, but need not, conclude in the transfer to lease purchasers of rights to conduct additional activities on the OCS [outer continental shelf].”
3 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.