Appalachian Power Company, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
208 F.3d 1015 · 2000
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 38 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably General Motors Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency (2004), Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida v. Veneman (2002)
76 federal appellate · 38 district · 3 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Bennett v. Spear · Chrysler Corporation v. Brown · Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp.
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an agency ... treats the document in the same manner as it treats a legislative rule, if it bases enforcement actions on the policies or interpretations formulated in the document, if it leads private parties or State permitting authorities to believe that it will declare permits invalid unless they comply with the terms of the document, then the agency’s document is for all practical purposes “binding.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The short of the matter is that the Guidance, insofar as relevant here, is final agency action, reflecting a settled agency position which has legal consequences both for State agencies administering their permit programs and for companies like those represented by petitioners who must obtain Title V permits in order to continue operating.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mark[s] the 'consummation' of the agency's decisionmaking process”
6 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.