Puget Sound Gillnetters Association v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, United States of America, Real Parties in Interest. Columbia River Fishermen's Protective Union, Inc., Petitioners v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, and United States of America, Real Parties in Interest-Appellees. United States of America v. State of Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Assn. (1979), United States v. Oregon (1981)
37 federal appellate · 3 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 Morton v. Mancari · Bates v. State Bar · United States v. Wheeler · United States v. Mazurie · McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona
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.
“The state [of Washington]'s extraordinary machinations in resisting the decree have forced the district court to take over a large share of the management of the state's fishery in order to enforce its decrees. Except for some desegregation cases, the district court has faced the most concerted official and private efforts to frustrate a decree of a federal court witnessed in this century.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“faced the most concerted official and private efforts to frustrate a decree of a federal court witnessed in this century ... except for some school desegregation cases.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he district court's jurisdiction extends to the entire Columbia River, not simply to the Oregon side.”
2 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.