Price Road Neighborhood Ass'n v. United States Department of Transportation’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 1505 · 1997
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Idaho Sporting Congress v. Thomas (1998), Idaho Sporting Congress, Inc. v. Rittenhouse (2002)
32 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Greenpeace Action v. Franklin · Animal Defense Council v. Hodel
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the environmental impacts resulting from the design change are significant or uncertain, as compared with the original design's impacts,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have consistently rejected such attempts [to engage in a battle of the experts], noting that 'when specialists express conflicting views, an agency must have discretion to rely on the reasonable opinions of its own qualified experts even if, as an original matter, a court might find contrary views more persuasive.' ") (citation omitted). In sum, for purposes of the present motion, Plaintiffs have not established likelihood of success on the merits on their contention that use of a CE for the Bull Run project was inappropriate because of extraordinary circumstances related to the species discussed above. 3. Decision To Analyze Bull Run And Spear Creek Separately Plaintiffs next take issue with the USFS's decision to analyze the Bull Run project separately from the Spear Creek project. Regulations from the Council on Environmental Quality ("CEQ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen faced with a project change, the. FHWA may conduct a reevaluation to determine the significance of the new design’s environmental impacts and the continuing validity of its initial [EIS]. A supplemental [EIS] is not automatically required under the regulations, but rather its necessity is dependent upon the findings and conclusions reached by the FHWA through its reevaluation process.”
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.