Fisher v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2000
5 district · 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 30 U.S.C. § 28 · 30 U.S.C. § 49A
Relies on Shively v. Bowlby · Pacific Steam Whaling Co. v. Alaska Packers' Ass'n · Heckman v. Sutter · Columbia Canning Co. v. Hampton · Heckman v. Sutter
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Provided, That every such regulation made by the Secretary of the Interior shall be of general application within the particular area to which it applies, and that no exclusive or several right of fishery shall be - granted therein, nor shall any citizen of the United States be denied the right to take, prepare, cure, or preserve fish or shellfish in any area of the waters of Alaska-, where fishing is permitted by the Secretary of the Interior.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lind v. Markley“For the 1945 fishing season the ruling is: (1) that the plaintiff had paramount right to the site of his No. 1 net; (2) that the defendants had paramount right to the sites of their Nos. 2 and 3 nets; (3) that the plaintiff’s Nos. 2 and 3 nets were unlawfully set and fished; and (4) that the defendants’ No. 1 net was unlawfully set and fished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clucas v. State
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.