Forest Guardians v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably American Civil Liberties Union v. City of Albuquerque (2008), City of Sunland Park v. Santa Teresa Services Co. (2003)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 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. Defenders of Wildlife · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 751 v. Brown Group, Inc.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n association has standing to bring suit on behalf of its members when: (a) its members would otherwise have standing to sue in their own right; (b) the interests it seeks to protect are germane to the organization’s purpose; and (c) neither the claim asserted nor the relief requested requires the participation of individual members in the lawsuit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) an injury in fact, (2) a causal relationship between the injury and the challenged conduct, and (3) a likelihood that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“clear threats to the essential nature of state government guaranteed to New Mexico citizens under their Constitutiona government in which the `three distinct departments, . . . legislative, executive, and judicial,' remain within the bounds of their constitutional powers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.