National Wildlife Federation v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 1054 · 1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1993
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Kaiser Aetna v. United States · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“declined to exercise jurisdiction over the project because its regulations provided that the permit requirement in section 10 would apply to work occurring outside the water itself only if it would 'affect the course, location, or condition of the waterbody in such a manner as to impact on the navigable capacity of the waterbody.' 33 C.F.R. § 322.3(a)(1) (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“project, that involved the construction of a concrete ditch designed to drain excess surface water into Devils Lake. Although agreeing with the Federation that Devils Lake was a navigable water of the United States, the Corps”
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.