Conant v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1008 · 1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2008
4 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1344
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The northwest 65 feet, the northeast 68 feet and the north 138 feet of the northern most pond of the plaintiff, are within the ‘waters of the United States’, the construction of which required a permit from the U.S. Army Corp [sic] of Engineers pursuant to section 404 of the Clean Water Act of 1977; (2) the plaintiff did not obtain a permit before discharging dredged or fill materials into the waters of the United States; (3) plaintiff’s use of the land is not an exempt activity under 33 U.S.C. § 1344 (section 404 of the Clean Water Act).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any discharge of dredged or fill material into the navigable waters incidental to any activity having as its purpose bringing an area of the navigable waters into a use to which it was not previously subject, where the flow or circulation of navigable waters may be impaired or the reach of such waters be reduced, shall be required to have a permit under this section. 33 U.S.C. § 1344 (f)(2) (1982).”
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.