Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents & Associates, Inc. v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 453 · 1989
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Davenport v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (1999), National Wildlife Federation v. Espy (1995)
27 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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. § 470 (National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000) · 16 U.S.C. § 470F · 16 U.S.C. § 470W · 33 U.S.C. § 403 · 33 U.S.C. § 406 · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Cort v. Ash · Heckler v. Chaney · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP)
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“structure” by virtue of being "permanently moored.” In such a situation, that Circuit has determined that the element of obstruction is presumed. 11 .The Fifth Circuit has stated that "[t]he imprecise statutory language of section 10 leaves the Corps with quasi-Iegal authority to determine what ‘effects' constitute ‘obstructions’ or ‘impacts’ to navigable capacity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is implicit in Rule 19(a) itself that before a party . . . will be joined as a defendant the plaintiff must have a cause of action against it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nationwide permits authorizing truly inconsequential activities are not trigger[s]”
2 later decisions 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.