S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 9 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons (2008), Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson Cty. (2009)
88 federal appellate · 9 district · 47 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1362
Relies on Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Gustafson v. Alloyd Co. · Pud No. 1 of Jefferson County v. Washington Department of Ecology · South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians · S.D. Warren Co. v. Board of Environmental Protection
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he argument seems to assume that pairing a broad statutory term with a narrow one shrinks the broad one, but there is no such general usage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“essential in the scheme to preserve state authority to address the broad range of pollution,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a word is known by the company it keeps.”
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.