Lingle Governor of Hawaii et al. v. Chevron Usa Inc’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
258 federal appellate · 99 district · 521 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,368 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Kelo v. City of New London (2005), San Remo Hotel L.P. v. City and County of San Francisco (2005)
258 federal appellate · 99 district · 521 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedChevron USA, Inc. v. Bronster (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon
Cited together with Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City
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 1,368 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
99 later decisions quote this exact passage“The paradigmatic taking requiring just compensation is a direct government appropriation or physical invasion of private property.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“so onerous that its effect is tantamount to a direct appropriation or ouster.”
8 later decisions 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.