Sturgeon v. Frost’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), In re Guardianship of Eliza W. (2020)
4 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1271 (Arkansas Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1992) · 16 U.S.C. § 1274 · 16 U.S.C. § 3101 (Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 3102 · 16 U.S.C. § 3103 · 16 U.S.C. § 3181 · 16 U.S.C. § 3191 · 16 U.S.C. § 410H
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Kaiser Aetna v. United States · Winters v. United States · D. Ginsberg & Sons, Inc. v. Popkin · Kleppe v. New Mexico
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Secretary [of the Interior], acting through the Director of the Park Service, has broad authority under the National Park Service Organic Act ... to administer both lands and waters within all system units in the country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“designed . . . to ensure that ANILCA's new boundary lines would 'not in any way change the status' of the state, Native, and private lands placed within them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall prescribe such regulations as [he or she] considers necessary or proper for the use and management of System units”
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.