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Escondido Mutual Water Co. v. La Jolla Band of Mission Indians’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

387

cited by 387 later decisions

cited 8 times by the Supreme Court

states following

January 2019

most recently cited

181 federal appellate · 23 district · 5 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 387 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably National Farmers Union Insurance Companies 27 v. Crow Tribe of Indians (1985), Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. (1984)

181 federal appellate · 23 district · 5 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

reviewedEscondido Mutual Water Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 16 U.S.C. § 791A (§ 321 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 796 (§ 3 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 797 (§ 4 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 9 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 803 (§ 10 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 807 (§ 14 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 808 (§ 15 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 814 (§ 21 of the Federal Power Act of 1920)

Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · United States v. Wheeler · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation

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 387 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[I]t should be generally assumed that Congress expresses its purposes through the ordinary meaning of the words it uses.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. United Steelworkers of America v. Jones & Lamson MacHine Co. (In Re Jones & Lamson MacHine Co.) · United States v. Plan Committee of Juvenile Shoe Corp. of America (In Re Juvenile Shoe Corp. of America)
“shall be subject to and contain such conditions as the Secretary of the department under whose supervision such reservation falls shall deem necessary for the adequate protection and utilization of such reservation[.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Southern California Edison Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission · American Rivers v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
“exclusive authority to issue all licenses.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. AL Riv Alli v. FERC · 466 F. Supp. 2d 912 - Michigan South Central Power Agency v. Constellation Energy Commodities Group, Inc.

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.