Ethyl Corp. v. Adams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• refusing tax exemption for bark-oil boiler that incinerated industrial waste-bark as a means of disposal; bark did not constitute “water pollution” unless dumped in landfills and leached into nearby streams
• “Since we find no indication that the Legislature intended that the [statutory term] be given a peculiar or technical meaning, we construe it according to the common meaning of the language.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gashgai v. Board of Registration in Medicine
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-08-24· cited 47×
• Amax Inc. Ex Rel. Amax Coal Co. v. State Board of Tax Commissioners
  Indiana Tax Court· 1990-03-28· cited 28×
• International Paper Co. v. Board of Environmental Protection
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1993-08-02· cited 23×
• Town of Jay v. Androscoggin Energy, LLC
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2003-05-01· cited 22×
• International Paper Co. v. Board of Environmental Protection
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1999-09-15· cited 21×
• Giberson v. Quinn
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1982-05-27· cited 20×
• Pelletier v. Pathiraja
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1986-12-23· cited 18×
• Eastern Maine Medical Center v. Maine Health Care Finance Commission
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-01-03· cited 16×
• Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. v. City of Westbrook
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1984-05-30· cited 11×
• Department of Employment v. Champion Bake-N-Serve, Inc.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1979-04-05· cited 10×
• Gulf Island Pond Oxygenation Project Partnership v. Board of Environmental Protection
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1994-07-22· cited 7×
• Karen S. Klein v. University of Maine System
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2022-03-15· cited 5×
• Henry Perkins Co. v. Board of Assessors
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-01-17· cited 5×
• Appeal of City of Berlin
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1988-12-28· cited 4×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Securities & Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1947-06-23· cited 3,981×
• Securities & Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1943-02-01· cited 3,975×
• Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Wichita Board of Trade
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 535×
• Mortimer W. Hanly, Arthur Gladstone, Frederick C. Stutzmann, Jr., Steven Charles Paras, and Charles Arthur Fehr v. Securities and Exchange Commission
  Second Circuit· 1969-07-24· cited 102×
• In Re Maine Clean Fuels, Inc.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1973-10-17· cited 83×
• Bourjois, Inc. v. Chapman
  Supreme Court· 1937-04-26· cited 78×
• Northeast Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board, (Two Cases)
  First Circuit· 1964-05-08· cited 54×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1970-05-21· cited 32×
• State Ex Rel. Brennan v. RD Realty Corporation
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-12-18· cited 29×
• Gagne v. Lewiston Crushed Stone Company, Inc.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-12-10· cited 26×
• Gagne v. Inhabitants of City of Lewiston
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-10-05· cited 21×
• Statler Industries, Inc. v. Board of Environmental Protection
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-03-06· cited 19×
• Cornwall Industries, Inc. v. Maine Department of Manpower Affairs, Employment Security Commission
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-01-30· cited 18×
• Maine Motor Rate Bureau
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-05-14· cited 13×
• Herbert Beck v. Securities & Exchange Commission
  Sixth Circuit· 1969-07-10· cited 6×