Neighbors of Cuddy Mountain v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
303 F.3d 1059 · 2002
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 38 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Lands Council v. Powell (2005), Native Ecosystems Council v. United States Forest Service (2005)
37 federal appellate · 38 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 Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Church of Scientology of California v. United States · Mills v. Green
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mandate particular results, but simply provides the necessary process to ensure that federal agencies take a hard look at the environmental consequences of their actions.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Specific projects, such as the Grade/Dukes timber sale, must be analyzed by the Forest Service and the analysis must show that each project is consistent with the plan.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”
3 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.