United States v. Oregon’s Empirical Analysis
718 F.2d 299 · 1983
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably United States v. Stanert (1985), United States v. Oregon (1990)
44 federal appellate · 7 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Weinstein v. Bradford · Mills v. Green
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] case is moot if the reviewing court can no longer grant effective relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a 'reasonable margin of safety' between an existing level of stocks and the imminence of extinction is the heart and soul of conservation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court must accord primacy to the geographical aspect of the treaty rights and invoke only such limits as required by the “comfortable margin” that sound conservation practices dictate.”
3 later decisions 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.