Safe Air for Everyone v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
373 F.3d 1035 · 2004
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 66 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 306 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Wolfe v. Strankman (2004), Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States v. Federation (2008)
24 federal appellate · 66 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 6901 (Federal Facility Compliance Act of 1992) · 42 U.S.C. § 6903 · 42 U.S.C. § 6921 · 42 U.S.C. § 6928 · 42 U.S.C. § 6972 · 42 U.S.C. § 7470
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · United States v. Turkette · Williamson v. Tucker · Meghrig v. KFC Western, 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 306 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a facial attack, the challenger asserts that the allegations contained in a complaint are insufficient on their face to invoke federal jurisdiction. By contrast, in a factual attack, the challenger disputes the truth of the allegations that, by themselves, would otherwise invoke federal jurisdiction.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once the moving party has converted the motion to dismiss into a factual motion by presenting affidavits or other evidence properly brought before the court, the party opposing the motion must furnish affidavits or other evidence necessary to satisfy its burden of establishing subject matter jurisdiction.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court need not presume the truthfulness of the plaintiff's allegations.”
8 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.