American Portland Cement Alliance v. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.3d 772 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably General Motors Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency (2004), Appalachian Power Company, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency (2000)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1369 · 42 U.S.C. § 2239 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 6901 · 42 U.S.C. § 6921 · 42 U.S.C. § 6976 · 42 U.S.C. § 6982 · 42 U.S.C. § 7607 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Brecht v. Abrahamson · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Webster v. Fall · KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press
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.
“publication or the lack thereof in the Federal Register or the Code of Federal Regulations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[t]he real dividing point between regulations and general statements of policy is publication in the Code of Federal Regulations . . . .” Brock v. Cathedral Bluffs Shale Oil Co., 796 F.2d 533, 539 (D.C. Cir. 1986). Publication in the Code is not just a matter of agency convention. The regulations governing the Code provide that it shall contain “each Federal regulation of general applicability and legal effect.” 1 C.F.R. § 8.1 (a) (1996). See Brock, 796 F.2d at 539 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a petition for review of action of the Administrator in promulgating any regulation, or requirement under this chapter or denying any petition for the promulgation, amendment or repeal of any regulation under this chapter may be filed only in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.”
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.