Stewart v. Potts’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1344 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362 · 33 U.S.C. § 1365 · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Camp v. Pitts · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council
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.
“tasks necessary to accomplish [the development of the proposed golf course] are so interrelated and functionally interdependent as to bring the entire project within the jurisdiction of the Corps, and therefore under the mandate of NEPA.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's Waters,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a couple of feet in diameter to less than one-quarter of an acre each.”
2 later decisions 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.