United States v. Angle’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right, by appropriation, to divert 769.5 acre feet of the waters of Stony Creek ... as of the date of priority of April 15, 1864 ... for the irrigation of the 190 acres of the so-called Hall & Scearce lands ... [as described in designated schedules] appended to this Article of the decree and made part hereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). 28 Finally, the district court refused to adopt Reimers' construction because 29 [i]f, as plaintiff[ ] suggest[s], the lands referred to in the stipulations are the 416 acres as described in the Project Land Schedule, the effect of paragraph”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would contradict the priorities as set out in the Appropriation Schedule contained in Article VII, which accords the highest priority to only 190 acres. 30 Angle, 760 F.Supp. at 1373 . In the first place, paragraph”
2 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.