Heartwood, Inc. v. United States Forest Service’s Empirical Analysis
230 F.3d 947 · 2000
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Kern v. United States Bureau of Land Management (2002), St. John's United Church of Christ v. City of Chicago (2007)
19 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Thomas Jefferson University v. Shalala
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provide[s] evidence and analysis that establish[es] whether or not an EIS or a Finding of No Significant Impact (`FONSI') should be prepared.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a detailed analysis and study conducted to determine if, or the extent to which, a particular agency action will impact the environment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As always, before the court may consider the merits of a case, we must determine whether Plaintiffs have presented a justiciable claim.”
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.