Ferguson v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission v. Apokedak · Doyle v. Doyle · Moffitt v. Moffitt · Chotiner v. Chotiner · Brosnan v. Brosnan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The IFQ program is a federal regulatory response to various problems in the halibut and sablefish fisheries, including allocation conflicts, discard mortality, safety, and economic stability. Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska; Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands; Limited Access Management of Fisheries Off Alaska, 58 Fed.Reg. 59,376 (1993). In the interest of promoting “the conservation and management of halibut and sablefish resources,” the program replaces the previous “open access” regulatory regime with a limited access system. Id. To qualify for an IFQ, a person must have owned or leased a vessel that made fixed gear landings of halibut or sablefish during 1988, 1989, or 1990. 50 C.F.R. § 676.20 (a)(l)(i) (1994). Once people qualify, their initial “quota shares” are determined in proportion to their history of landings from 1984 to 1990 for halibut, and from 1985 to 1990 for sablefish. 50 C.F.R. § 676.20 (b) (1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] spouse's interest in an IFQ is his or her separate property to the extent that the size of the quota share is attributable to labor performed prior to the marriage, and marital property to the extent that it is attributable to labor performed during the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brennan v. Brennan“[t]he IFQ program is a federal regulatory response to various problems in the halibut and sablefish fisheries ... [which] replaces the previous 'open access' regulatory regime with a limited access system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brennan v. Brennan
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.