California’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Sierra Club v. Department of Transportation (2007), Plains Exploration & Production Company v. Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated (2015)
7 district · 3 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 Secretary of the Interior v. California · Muckleshoot Indian Tribe v. U.S. Forest Service · Jack Metcalf v. William Daley US James Baker · 43 Cal. App. 3d 306 - CEEED v. California Coastal Zone Conservation Commission · Bicycle Trails Council 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is difficult for a reviewing court to determine if the application of an exclusion is arbitrary and capricious where there is no contemporaneous documentation to show that the agency considered the environmental consequences of its action and decided to apply a categorical exclusion to the facts of a particular decision. Post hoc invocation of a categorical exclusion does not provide assurance that the agency actually considered the environmental effects of its action before the decision was made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where there is substantial evidence in the record that exceptions to the categorical exclusion may apply, the agency must at the very least explain why the action does not fall within one of the exceptions.”
2 later decisions 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.