Burkey v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1005 · 42 U.S.C. § 1962D · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy Commission · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Morton · Mitchell v. Woodworth · Nashville Milk Company v. Carnation Company Safeway Stores
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is hereby reiterated that the interest rates or rates of discount to be used to assess the return on the Federal Government’s investment in projects of the United States Army Corps of Engineers or the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, shall be those interest rates or rates of discount established by Public Law 93-251, the Water Resources Development Act of 1974, ... or by any prior law authorizing projects of the United States Army Corps of Engineers or the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnston v. Davis
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.