Wilson v. Amoco Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2017
5 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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. § 1365 · 42 U.S.C. § 6902 · 42 U.S.C. § 6922 · 42 U.S.C. § 6972
Relies on United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo · Amoco Production Co. v. Village of Gambell · Far East Conference v. United States · City of Burlington v. Dague
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny person may commence a civil action on his own behalf— (B) against any person, including the United States and any other governmental instrumentality or agency, ... including any past or present generator, past or present transporter, or past or present owner or operator of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility, who has contributed or who is contributing to the past or present handling, storage, treatment, transportation, or disposal of any solid or hazardous waste which may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In addition to their myriad of causation hurdles, Plaintiffs face the equally troublesome problem of demonstrating that the PCE contamination poses an imminent and substantial endangerment to health and the environment. The evidence before the court casts doubts on the plaintiffs assertion that it does.”
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.