West Virginia Division v. Butz’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 945 · 1975
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably Sierra Club v. Espy (1994), 923 F. Supp. 720 - Bryant v. Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland, Inc. (1996)
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Morton v. Mancari · Zuber v. Allen · United States v. City & County of San Francisco · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist · 35 Cal. 2d 175 - People v. Knowles
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the policy of the Congress that national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes. The purposes of sections 528 to 531 of this title are declared to be supplemental to, but not in derogation of, the purposes for which the national forests were established as set forth in section 475 of this title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'all words and provisions of statutes are intended to have meaning and are to be given effect.'”
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.