Desert Citizens Against Pollution v. Bisson’s Empirical Analysis
231 F.3d 1172 · 2000
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Sammartano, Western Watersheds Project v. Kraayenbrink (2010)
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Sierra Club v. Morton · Bennett v. Spear · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he use of the land as a landfill was not only reasonable, it was the specific intent of the exchange that it be used for that purpose. There is no principled reason why the BLM, or any federal agency, should remain willfully blind to the value of federal lands by acting contrary to the most elementary principles of real estate transactions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Environmental and aesthetic injuries constitute irijuries in fact for standing purposes. See, e.g., Mount Graham Red Squirrel v. Espy, 986 F.2d 1568 , 1581-82 (9th Cir.1993) (extinction of species whose observation in the wild provided plaintiffs scientific, Recreational and aesthetic enjoyment conferred requisite injury for standing purposes); Fund for Animals, Inc. v. Lujan, 962 F.2d 1391, 1396 (9th Cir.1992) (diminished opportunity for Fund .members to view the northern bison herd in Yellowstone established standing to challenge the National Park Service’s 1990 bison management plan); Alaska Fish & Wildlife Fed’n and Outdoor Council, Inc. v. Dunkle, 829 F.2d 933, 937 (9th Cir.1987) (decrease in number of migratory birds resulting from a permissive hunting policy injured “those who wish to hunt, photograph, observe, or carry out scientific studies on the migratory birds”).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.