United States v. Amoco Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Atlantic States Legal Foundation, Inc. v. Tyson Foods, Inc. (1990), Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. v. Gwaltney of Smithfield, Ltd. (1986)
6 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1319 · 33 U.S.C. § 1342 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362
Relies on National Wildlife Federation v. Gorsuch · United States v. Earth Sciences, Inc. · United States v. One 1973 Buick Riviera Automobile · Wermager v. Cormorant Township Board · Sommers v. Budget Marketing, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny person who violates ... any permit condition or limitation ... shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 per day of such violation.”
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.