Churchill County v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
276 F.3d 1060 · 2001
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably The Lands Council v. McNair (2008), Kern v. United States Bureau of Land Management (2002)
50 federal appellate · 15 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 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Nevada v. United States
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonably thorough discussion of the significant aspects of the probable environmental consequences.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the impact on the environment which results from the incremental impact of the action when added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions regardless of what agency ... or person undertakes such other actions. Cumulative impacts can result from individually minor but collectively significant actions taking place over a period of time.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a pragmatic judgment whether the EIS's form, content and preparation foster both informed decision-making and informed public participation.”
4 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.