United States v. Hamel’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.2d 107 · 1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter v. Cedar Point Oil Co. (1996), National Wildlife Federation v. Gorsuch (1982)
19 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · Environmental Protection Agency v. California Ex Rel. State Water Resources Control Board · United States v. Gilliland · Train v. Colorado Public Interest Research Group, Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the same conduct is prohibited by two penal statutes, the government may proceed under either and the defendant may not complain if the government elects to proceed under the harsher one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so that litigable issues are avoided over the question of whether the addition of a particular material is subject to control requirements.”
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.