Palila v. Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources’s Empirical Analysis
639 F.2d 495 · 1981
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter, Communities for Great Ore. (1995), Thomas v. Peterson (1985)
36 federal appellate · 19 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 First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Real v. Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Inc. · North Slope Borough v. Andrus · California Pacific Bank v. Small Business Administration
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by the presence of mouflon sheep. Hence, these appeals. But, first, some history. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS 3 In 1978 the Sierra Club and others brought an action under the Act on behalf of the Palila, claiming that the Department's practice of maintaining feral goats and sheep (animals that originally were domesticated but were allowed to run wild) in the Palila's critical habitat 1 constituted an unlawful”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“some prohibited impact on an endangered species.”
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.