Loving v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 861 · 1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2009
11 federal appellate · 2 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 33 U.S.C. § 403 · 33 U.S.C. § 59
Relies on Kaiser Aetna v. United States · United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co. · The Daniel Ball · United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at all seasons of the year, or at all stages of the water.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A stream or other body of water is navigable in fact where, and only where, it is of sufficient capacity to be capable of being used for useful purposes of navigation, that is, for trade and travel in the usual and ordinary modes. As otherwise expressed, bodies of water are navigable in fact when they are used or are susceptible of being used in their ordinary condition as highways for commerce over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.... [ Emphasis added ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The extent and manner of use of a navigable river is not important as long as it is usable as an actual avenue of commerce.”
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.