Bennett v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2000
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 470 (National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000) · 16 U.S.C. § 470F · 23 U.S.C. § 101 (America Fast Forward Financing Innovation Act of 2012) · 23 U.S.C. § 103 · 23 U.S.C. § 104 · 23 U.S.C. § 128 · 23 U.S.C. § 138 · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Bullock v. United States · Ohio v. Kentucky · Pierce v. Georgia · Ruffin v. Georgia · Roach v. United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“motives of the state authorities are by and large irrelevant to this inquiry since the law applies to those projects specified by the Congress without regard to intent of either state or federal authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.