Carr v. Alta Verde Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
931 F.2d 1055 · 1991
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. v. Schwartzwald (2012), Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter v. Cedar Point Oil Co. (1996)
31 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362 · 33 U.S.C. § 1365
Relies on St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Powell v. McCormack · Rosado v. Wyman · Gwaltney of Smithfield, Ltd. v. Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) by proving violations that continue on or after the date the complaint is filed, or (2) by adducing evidence from which a reasonable trier of fact could find a continuing likelihood of a recurrence in intermittent or sporadic violations. Intermittent or sporadic violations do not cease to be ongoing until the date when there is no real likelihood of repetition.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“As with all questions of subject matter jurisdiction except mootness, standing is determined as of the date of the filing of the complaint.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proof of an actual violation subsequent to the complaint is conclusive”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.