Israel v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
549 F.2d 128 · 1977
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2024
9 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 835 (The Columbia Basin Project Act) · 43 U.S.C. § 423E
Relies on Ivanhoe Irrigation District v. McCracken · United States v. Tulare Lake Canal 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A distinction must be recognized between the nature of nonproject water, such as natural-flow water, and project water, and between the manner in which rights to use of such waters are obtained. Right to use of natural-flow water is obtained in accordance with state law.... Project water, on the other hand, would not exist but for the fact that it has been developed by the United States.... The terms upon which it can be put to use, and the manner in which rights to continued use can be acquired, are for the United States to fix.”
4 later decisions 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.