Natural Resources Defense Council v. Abraham’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.3d 179 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Shi Liang Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2007), W.R. Grace & Co. v. Zotos International, Inc. (2009)
12 federal appellate · 6 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.
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · United States v. Mead Corp. · Christensen v. Harris County · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ltering the effective date of a duly promulgated standard could be, in substance, tantamount to an amendment or rescission of the standard[ ].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in light of the well-established principle that an agency literally has no power to act unless and until Congress confers power upon it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“see, e.g., 42 U.S.C. § 6295 (f)(1)(B) (2003), suggesting that the terms are interchangeable. 51 Thus, once new standards are published, DOE has discharged its obligation to prescribe an amended standard or announce its decision not to under the provisions requiring periodic review. Furthermore, once an efficiency standard is published, regardless of the fact that manufacturers have a number of years to bring themselves into compliance, it becomes the”
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.