Crutchfield v. County of Hanover’s Empirical Analysis
325 F.3d 211 · 2003
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition v. Aracoma Coal Co. (2009), Ripplin Shoals Land Co. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers (2006)
15 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · United States v. Mead Corp. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Securities & Exchange Commission
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extensive site-specific research and documentation, promulgation of public notice, opportunity for public comment, consultation with other federal agencies, and a formal analysis justifying the ultimate decision to issue or refuse the permit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interested parties can try to fit their proposed activity within the scope of an existing general permit,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Independent Utility: A test to determine what constitutes a single and complete project in the Corps regulatory program. A project is considered to have independent utility if it would be constructed absent the construction of other projects in the project area. Portions of a multi-phase project that depend upon other phases of the project do not have independent utility. Phases that would be constructed even if the other phases are not built can be considered as separate single and complete projects with independent utility.”
1 later decision 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.