Leather Industries of America, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 392 · 1994
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Troy Corp. v. Browner (1997), Environmental Defense Center, Inc. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.-Intervenor, v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (2003)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1317 · 33 U.S.C. § 1345
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · American Petroleum Institute v. Gorsuch · Petroleum Communications, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the agency's line-drawing does not appear irrational and the [challenger] has not shown that the consequences of the line-drawing are in any respect dire ... we will leave that line-drawing to the agency's discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n agency has discretion to design rules that can be broadly applied, sacrificing some measure of 'fit' for administrability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a margin of safety must be rooted in an analysis of risk.”
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.