Molycorp, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.3d 543 · 1999
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Trudeau v. Federal Trade Commission (2006), General Motors Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency (2004)
36 federal appellate · 10 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 Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Ohio Forestry Association Inc v. Sierra Club · Paralyzed Veterans of America v. D.C. Arena L.P. · Syncor International Corp. v. Shalala · Solite Corporation v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and William K. Reilly, Administrator, Epa, the Aluminum Association, Intervenors
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“look[s] to three factors: (1) the [a]gency's own characterization of the action; (2) whether the action was published in the Federal Register or the Code of Federal Regulations; and (3) whether the action has binding effects on private parties or on the agency.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“final regulations, requirements, and denials of petitions to promulgate, amend or repeal a regulation,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be modified without the notice and comment procedure that would be required to change the underlying regulation—otherwise, an agency could easily evade notice and comment requirements by amending a rule under the guise of reinterpreting it.”
1 later decision 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.