Peterson v. United States Department of the Interior’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.2d 799 · 1990
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Lukwago v. Ashcroft (2003), Transohio Savings Bank v. Director, Office of Thrift Supervision (1992)
31 federal appellate · 4 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 12 U.S.C. § 1743 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 43 U.S.C. § 373 · 43 U.S.C. § 390B (Water Supply Act of 1958) · 43 U.S.C. § 390C · 43 U.S.C. § 390D · 43 U.S.C. § 390E · 43 U.S.C. § 390H (Hawaii Water Resources Act of 2000)
Relies on Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co. · Lynch v. United States · Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. RA Gray & Co. · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With the Reclamation Act of 1902, Congress committed itself to the task of constructing and operating dams, reservoirs, and canals for the reclamation of the arid lands in 17 western states. The projects were to be built on federal land and the actual construction and operation were to be in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“against the backdrop of the legislative scheme that authorized them, and ... in light of the policies underlying the controlling legislation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'will remain intact unless surrendered in unmistakable terms.'”
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.