United States v. Boyden’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 685 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2011
11 federal appellate · 4 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 1 U.S.C. § 3 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 33 U.S.C. § 403
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · United States v. Batchelder · California v. Sierra Club · District of Columbia v. Carter · United States v. Cartwright
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Matter of Borba, 736 F.2d 1317 , 1320 (9th Cir.1984); Watt v. Alaska, 451 U.S. 259 , 266, 101 S.Ct. 1673, 1677, 68 L.Ed.2d 80 (1981). It is necessary to look to the purpose and intent of a statute when deciding what its terms mean. Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Engle, 464 U.S. 206 , 217, 104 S.Ct. 597, 604, 78 L.Ed.2d 420 (1984); District of Columbia v. Carter, 409 U.S. 418 , 420, 93 S.Ct. 602, 604, 34 L.Ed.2d 613 (1973); United States v. Boyden, 696 F.2d 685 , 687 (9th Cir.1983); 4A Sands, Statutory Interpretation Sec. 58.06 (1984) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bresgal v. Brock · Bresgal v. Brock“The creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is prohibited; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of the Army....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The term “structure” shall include, without limitation, any pier, boat dock, coat ramp, wharf, dolphin, weir, boom, breakwater, bulkhead, revetment, riprap, jetty, artificial island, artificial reef, permanent mooring structure, power transmission line, permanently moored floating vessel, piling, aid to navigation, or any other obstacle or obstruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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