Sierra Club’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.3d 753 · 1994
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 16 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Iowa Utilities Board v. Federal Communications Commission (1997), Mausolf v. Babbitt (1996)
31 federal appellate · 16 district · 5 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1604 · 16 U.S.C. § 528 (Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 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 · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Sierra Club v. Morton · O'Shea v. Littleton
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides guidelines and approved methods by which forest management decisions are to be made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an invasion of a legally-protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical,” we would not preclude intervenor status so long as the Association had a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is elementary that standing relates to the justiciability of a case and cannot be waived by the parties.”
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.