Beveridge’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions

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.

1. ““may be evidenced in several ways. The scheme of federal regulation may be so pervasive as to make reasonable the inference that Congress left no room for the States to supplement it. Or the Act of Congress may touch a field in which the federal interest is so dominant that the federal system will be assumed to preclude enforcement of state laws on the same subject. Likewise, the object sought to be obtained by the federal law and the character of obligations imposed by it may reveal the same purpose.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 823 F. Supp. 766 - Hawaiian Navigable Waters Preservation Society v. Hawaii · Barber v. Hawai'i

2. “... just because Congress has intended to reduce the possibility of cargo and vessel loss, prevent damage to structures on or near navigable waters, ensure that vessels comply with certain standards, and just because it believes that ‘navigation and vessel safety and protection of the marine environment are matters of major national importance,’ does not necessarily mean • that the city ... is completely trammeled in all regulatory efforts.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 823 F. Supp. 766 - Hawaiian Navigable Waters Preservation Society v. Hawaii · Barber v. Hawai'i

3. “The district court’s proper understanding that Subpart A refers to required lighting and Subpart B to anchoring is buttressed by two other considerations. First 33 C.F.R. § 109.10 states that an act of Congress “provides for the designation of special anchorage areas wherein vessels not more that sixty-five feet in length, when at anchor, will not be required to carry or exhibit anchorage lights. Second, ... [i]f A were meant to refer to anchoring as well as lighting, surely it would be redundant to describe different anchoring areas in the same harbors in B.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 823 F. Supp. 766 - Hawaiian Navigable Waters Preservation Society v. Hawaii