McDowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Peninsula Marketing Ass'n v. State (1991), Gilbert v. State, Department of Fish & Game, Board of Fisheries (1990)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 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 16 U.S.C. § 3113 · 16 U.S.C. § 3114 · 16 U.S.C. § 3115 · 16 U.S.C. § 3117
Relies on Hayes v. Lockhart · In re Disbarment of Schaefer · Geer v. State of Connecticut · Hynes v. Grimes Packing Co · Merrit Martin v. William C Waddell
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Laws and regulations governing the use or disposal of natural resources shall apply equally to all persons similarly situated with reference to the subject matter and purpose to be served by the law or regulation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the noncommercial, customary and traditional uses of wild, renewable resources by a resident domiciled in a rural area ... for the customary trade, barter, or sharing for personal or family consumption.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the taking on public lands of fish and wildlife for nonwasteful subsistence uses . . . over the taking on such lands of fish and wildlife for other purposes.”
3 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.