Walls’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Jv Peters Co Inc, 642 F. Supp. 1258 - United States v. New Castle County (1986)
3 federal appellate · 10 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
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. · 544 F. Supp. 1135 - City of Philadelphia v. Stepan Chemical Co. · Ada-Cascade Watch Co. v. Cascade Resource Recovery, Inc. · 584 F. Supp. 1425 - Jones v. Inmont Corp.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the owner and operator of a vessel or a facility, (2) any person who at the time of disposal of any hazardous substance owned or operated any facility at which such hazardous substances were disposed of, (3) any person who by contract, agreement, or otherwise arranged for disposal or treatment, or arranged with a transporter for transport for disposal or treatment, of hazardous substances owned or possessed by such person, by any other party or entity, at any facility or incineration vessel owned or operated by another party or entity and containing such hazardous substances, and (4) any person who accepts or accepted any hazardous substances for transport to disposal or treatment facilities, incineration vessels or sites selected by such person, from which there is a release, or a threatened release which causes the incurrence of response costs, of hazardous substance,....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“necessary costs of response ... consistent with the national contingency plan.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prompt cleanup of hazardous waste sites,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.