Spiller v. White’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.3d 235 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition v. Aracoma Coal Co. (2009), Coliseum Square Ass'n v. Jackson (2006)
10 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 Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Greenpeace Action v. Franklin · Save Our Ten Acres v. Kreger
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a rough-cut, low-budget environmental impact statement designed to show whether a full-fledged environmental impact statement -- which is very costly and time-consuming to prepare and has been the kiss of death to many a federal project -- is necessary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the significance of an action must be analyzed in several contexts such as society as a whole (human, national), the affected region, the affected interests, and the locality.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coliseum Square Association, Inc., Smart Growth for Louisiana, Louisiana Landmarks Society, Inc., Historic Magazine Row Association and the Urban Conservancy, Inc. v. Alphonso Jackson, Etc., Alphonso Jackson, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Housing Authority of New Orleans, Coliseum Square Association, Inc., Smart Growth for Louisiana, Louisiana Landmarks Society, Inc., Historic Magazine Row Association and the Urban Conservancy, Inc. v. Housing Authority of New Orleans, an Agency of the State of Louisiana, Alphonso Jackson, Acting Secretary, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Historic Restoration, Inc., Intervenor-Appellee · Hollingsworth v. Vilsack“do not appear to be categorical rules that determine by themselves whether an impact is significant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coliseum Square Association, Inc., Smart Growth for Louisiana, Louisiana Landmarks Society, Inc., Historic Magazine Row Association and the Urban Conservancy, Inc. v. Alphonso Jackson, Etc., Alphonso Jackson, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Housing Authority of New Orleans, Coliseum Square Association, Inc., Smart Growth for Louisiana, Louisiana Landmarks Society, Inc., Historic Magazine Row Association and the Urban Conservancy, Inc. v. Housing Authority of New Orleans, an Agency of the State of Louisiana, Alphonso Jackson, Acting Secretary, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Historic Restoration, Inc., Intervenor-Appellee · Louisiana Crawfish Producers Ass'n-West v. Rowan
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.