Center for Biological Diversity v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
262 F.3d 1077 · 2001
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2025
8 federal appellate · 3 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 Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources · Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · Kiowa Indian Tribe v. Hoover · Foremaster v. City of St. George · Forest Guardians v. Babbitt
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“basis of the Court's conclusion in Buckhannon is not applicable”
2 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.