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472 F.3d 1009 · 2007

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Bestfoods · Sherwood Partners, Inc. v. Lycos, Inc. · Swint v. Chambers County Commission · Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Aviall Services, Inc. · United States v. Northeastern Pharmaceutical & Chemical 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “So, under CERCLA, an operator is simply someone who directs the workings of, manages, or conducts the affairs of a facility. To sharpen the definition for purposes of CERCLA's concern with environmental contamination, an operator must manage, direct, or conduct operations specifically related to pollution, that is, operations having to do with the leakage or disposal of hazardous waste, or decisions about compliance with environmental regulations.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “has the inherent power to reconsider and modify an interlocutory order any time prior to the entry of judgment,”
    1 later decision 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.