Solid Waste Agency v. United States Army Corps of Engineers’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.3d 503 · 1996
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably San Juan County v. United States (2007), Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin v. Doyle (1998)
23 federal appellate · 4 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 Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Trbovich v. United Mine Workers · Diamond v. Charles · United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald · Air Courier Conference of America v. American Postal Workers Union
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he strongest case for intervention is not where the aspirant for intervention could file an independent suit, but where the intervenor-aspirant has no claim . . . yet a legally protectable interest that could be impaired by the suit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“overlap to a great extent the interests that nuisance law protects”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed, the major difference is that environmental statutes regulate more subtle and attenuated harms than the common law of nuisance does; a land use that creates a common law nuisance is thus likely to be an a fortiori violation of statutory environmental law.”
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.