United States v. Tull’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 182 · 1985
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Tull v. United States (1987), Concerned Area Residents for the Environment v. Southview Farm (1994)
15 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1319 · 33 U.S.C. § 1344 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362 · 33 U.S.C. § 401 · 33 U.S.C. § 403 · 42 U.S.C. § 1995
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · United States v. Harriss · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n light of our disposition of these cases we decline the respondents’ invitation to decide whether the dictum in these cases correctly divines the intent of the Seventh Amendment or whether, as the respondents argue, the Seventh Amendment has no application to Government litigation and leaves solely to the Sixth Amendment the function of interposing a jury between the Federal Government and an individual from whom it wishes to exact a fine. (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we agree with the lower federal courts that have uniformly found the power conferred by the Commerce Clause broad enough to permit congressional regulation of activities causing air or water pollution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Conferees fully intend that the term 'navigable waters' be given the broadest possible constitutional interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.