Bunch v. Hodel’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 129 · 1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2010
3 federal appellate ·
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. § 715E · 42 U.S.C. § 4331 (§ 101 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois · DeLyra v. United States · Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers of America · Cordovan Associates, Inc. v. Dayton Rubber Co. · Maddox v. Fortson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 65(a)(2), however, the district court had consolidated the hearing on the application for a preliminary injunction with a trial on the merits. The scope of our consideration under these circumstances, therefore, is the clearly erroneous standard outlined in Fed.R.Civ.P. 52. 20 In concluding that the drawdown is a major federal action, the district court found that the 1941 lease unambiguously gave the United States Fish and Wildlife Service the exclusive authority to manipulate Reelfoot Lake's water level. On appeal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bunch v. Hodel“'the principles of the common law, regulating and defining the respective rights of the public and of the riparian proprietors in rivers of whatever character, remain unchanged, and are to be applied by the courts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bunch v. Hodel“to the State of Tennessee the right to prescribe and collect such fees for public hunting and fishing thereon as it may deem appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bunch v. Hodel
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.