Avoyelles Sportsmen's League, Inc. v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
715 F.2d 897 · 1983
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 25 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 297 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably American Hospital Ass'n v. Bowen (1987), Cannata v. Department of Environmental Protection (1990)
134 federal appellate · 25 district · 6 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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Udall v. Tallman · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City
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 297 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an area of the navigable waters into a use to which it was not previously subject, where the flow or circulation of navigable waters may be impaired or the reach of such waters be reduced.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.