Boyd v. Roland’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 347 · 1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2001
2 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.
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 470 (National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000) · 16 U.S.C. § 470F
Relies on Ruffin v. Georgia · Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. United Gas Pipe Line Co. · Morris County Trust for Historic Preservation v. Pierce · WATCH v. Harris · 557 F. Supp. 74 - Hough v. Marsh
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he head of any Federal department or independent agency having authority to license any undertaking shall, prior to ... the issuance of any license ... take into account the effect of the undertaking on any district, site, building, structure, or object that is included in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register. The head of any such Federal agency shall afford the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation ... a reasonable opportunity to comment with regard to such undertaking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] plain reading of section 106 ... persuades us that property qualifies as eligible property on the basis of literal eligibility under the National Register criteria. Consequently, we conclude that eligible property is not restricted to property that has been officially determined eligible for inclusion in the National Register.” Boyd v. Roland, 789 F.2d 347, 349 (5th Cir.1986) (emphasis in original); see Colorado River Indian Tribes v. Marsh, 605 F.Supp. 1425, 1437 (C.D.Cal.1985) (”
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.