Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn. v. DeBenedictis’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
324 federal appellate · 148 district · 670 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,817 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992), First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles (1987)
324 federal appellate · 148 district · 670 state decisions — followed in 42 states
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
reviewedKeystone Bituminous Coal Ass'n v. Duncan (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 1201 (Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act of 1990) · 30 U.S.C. § 1266
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell
Cited together with Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Agins v. City of Tiburon · Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles
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 1,817 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statute regulating the uses that can be made of property effects a taking if it denies an owner economically viable use of his land[ ].”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[w]hile each of us is burdened somewhat by restrictions, we, in turn, benefit greatly from the restrictions that we place on others.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“denies an owner economically viable use of his land.”
19 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.