Christy Et Al. v. Lujan, Secretary of the Interior, Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
151 federal appellate · 14 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 337 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Gray, Checkosky v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1994)
151 federal appellate · 14 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1538 (§ 9 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973)
Relies on Moore v. City of East Cleveland · First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles · Armstrong v. United States · Delaware v. New York · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County
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 337 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not minimize the seriousness of the problem faced by livestock owners such as plaintiffs nor do we suggest that defense of property is an unimportant value. We simply hold that the right to kill federally protected wildlife in defense of property is not “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty” nor so “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition” that it can be recognized by us as a fundamental right....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Thompson
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.