United States v. Akin’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.2d 115 · 1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Relationships
Applies 22 U.S.C. § 2283 · 28 U.S.C. § 1345 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 43 U.S.C. § 666
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Zwickler v. Koota · Dugan v. Rank · Kline v. Burke Construction 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[It is] to allow the United States to be joined in a suit wherein it is necessary to adjudicate all of the rights of various owners on a given stream. This is so because unless all of the parties owning or in the process of acquiring water rights on a particular stream can be joined as parties defendant, any subsequent decree would be of little value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consent is hereby given to join the United States as a defendant in any suit (1) for the adjudication of rights to the use of water of a river system or other source, or (2) for the administration of such 2 [Amicus Curiae Information from page 802 intentionally omitted] rights, where it appears that the United States is the owner of or is in the process of acquiring water rights by appropriation under State law, by purchase, by exchange, or otherwise, and the United States is a necessary party to such suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The [McCarran] Amendment's purpose was to permit complete adjudication in a [single] action and to prevent frustration of the parties because of inability to obtain jurisdiction over the United States.”
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.