Raymond Proffitt Foundation v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s Empirical Analysis
343 F.3d 199 · 2003
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Heckler v. Chaney · Morton v. Ruiz · Whitman Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency v. American Trucking Associations Inc
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the action involves broad discretion, not just the limited discretion inherent in every agency action; 2) the action is a product of political, military, economic, or managerial choices not readily subject to judicial review; and 3) the action does not involve charges that the agency lacked jurisdiction, that the decision was motivated by impermissible influences such as bribery or fraud, or that the decision violates a constitutional, statutory, or regulatory command.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“final agency action for which there is no other adequate remedy in a court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to include environmental protection as a mission.”
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.