Roberts v. Sea-Land Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
566 U.S. 93 · 2012
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon (2022), Van Buren v. United States (2021)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 906 · 33 U.S.C. § 912 · 33 U.S.C. § 914 · 33 U.S.C. § 919 · 33 U.S.C. § 928 · 33 U.S.C. § 930
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. · Trw Inc v. Adelaide Andrews · Gustafson v. Alloyd 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he words of a statute must be read in their context and with a view to their place in the overall statutory scheme.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whether the language at issue has a plain and unambiguous meaning with regards to the particular dispute in [this] case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we look first to its language, giving the words used their ordinary meaning.”
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.