Columbia River Gorge United-Protecting People & Property v. Yeutter’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 110 · 1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2011
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. · Wickard v. Filburn · Hillsborough County v. Automated Medical Laboratories, Inc. · Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County · Cuyler v. Adams
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have already determined that the Act is within Congress’ power under the Commerce Clause. For a similar reason, the Act cannot be a violation of the Tenth Amendment. Since the Act is within the powers granted to Congress under the Commerce Clause, it cannot constitute an exercise of a power reserved to the states.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]reservation of the Columbia River Gorge Area is a permissible Congressional objective.”
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.