Colorado v. Sunoco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
337 F.3d 1233 · 2003
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2022
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 5121 (Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act of 2022) · 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9607 (§ 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9613 (§ 113 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · United States v. Mead Corp. · Freytag v. Commissioner · United States v. Aguilar
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An initial action for recovery of the costs referred to in section 9607 of this title must be commenced— (A) for a removal action, within 3 years after completion of the removal action, except that such cost-recovery action must be brought within 6 years after a determination to grant a waiver under section 9604(c)(1)(C) of this title for continued response action; and (B) for a remedial action, within 6 years after initiation of physical on-site construction of the remedial action, except that, if the remedial action is initiated within 3 years after the completion of the removal action, costs incurred in the removal action may be recovered in the cost-recovery action brought under this subparagraph.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an action may be commenced under section 9607 of this title for recovery of costs at any time after such costs have been incurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Elements of either response action may overlap and semantics often obscure the actual nature of the cleanup performed.”
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.