Animal Welfare Institute v. Kreps’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 1002 · 1977
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Action Alliance of Senior Citizens v. Heckler (1986), National Wildlife Federation v. Hodel (1988)
43 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 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 Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Califano v. Sanders · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here an act is expressly motivated by considerations of humaneness toward animals, who are uniquely incapable of defending their own interests in court, it strikes us as eminently logical to allow groups specifically concerned with animal welfare to invoke the aid of the courts in enforcing the statute.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress, in enacting the MMPA, established as a matter of law the requisite causal relationship between American importing practices and South African sealing practices.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enjoy[ing] Cape fur seals alive in their natural habitat under conditions in which the animals are not subject to ... inhumane treatment,”
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.