United States v. Kramer’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2013
9 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 42 U.S.C. § 113 · 42 U.S.C. § 5121 (Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act of 2022) · 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9604 (§ 104 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9607 (§ 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9611 (§ 111 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9613 (§ 113 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Russello v. United States · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Arizona v. California · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Inc v. B Camp Barlow
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“During all phases of response, the lead agency shall complete and maintain documentation to support all actions taken under the NCP and to form the basis for cost recovery. In general, documentation shall be sufficient to provide the source and circumstances of the release, the identity of responsible parties, the response action taken, accurate accounting of federal, state or private party costs incurred for response actions, and impacts and potential impacts to the public health and welfare and the environment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fraud, double-billing or activities that do not relate to the lawful remedy.” Id. As the Court noted, supra, if any of the Government’s response costs were incurred as a result of such illegitimate activities, the parties to the settlement negotiations (including Alumax) had every incentive to bring such considerations to light. 12 . Nor, for that matter, has Alumax submitted an affidavit pursuant to Rule 56(f), Fed. R.Civ.P., suggesting that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“CERCLA imposes no obligation on the United States to minimize its response costs for the benefit of responsible parties who are liable for costs.”
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.