United States v. Goldsmith’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 643 · 1992
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 6928
Relies on Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · United States v. International Minerals & Chemical Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant knew that the stored material had the potential to be harmful to others or to the environment, in other words, that it was not an innocuous substance like water.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowingly transport[ ] or cause[ ] to be transported any hazardous waste ... to a facility which does not have a permit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he government need only prove that a defendant had knowledge of the general hazardous character of the chemical”
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.