Lands Council v. Vaught’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1604 · 33 U.S.C. § 1288 · 33 U.S.C. § 1313 · 5 U.S.C. § 1009 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Amoco Production Co. v. Village of Gambell · Darby v. Cisneros · United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the challenged project did not involve the logging of any old growth, ... the Forest Service must demonstrate compliance with the Forest Plan’s old growth standards and ensure that the mature trees logged under the project were not needed to fill any shortfall in the required old growth acreage.”
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.