Onrc Action’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.3d 1132 · 1998
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Don Laub (2003), Ecology Center, Inc. v. United States Forest Service (1999)
15 federal appellate · 22 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · Ohio Forestry Association Inc v. Sierra Club
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“calls into doubt a plaintiff's ability to challenge an agency's adoption of a plan without site-specific actions as the focus of the challenge”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“agency recalcitrance ... in the face of clear statutory duty or ... of such a magnitude that it amounts to an abdication of statutory responsibility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed.”
3 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.