Patterson v. Exon’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2001
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 23 U.S.C. § 138 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy Commission · Scientists' Institute for Public Information, Inc. v. Atomic Energy Commission · City of Davis v. Coleman · Mitchell v. Woodworth · Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Corps of Engineers of United States Army
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) the environmental impact of the proposed action, (ii) any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided should the proposal be implemented, (iii) alternatives to the proposed action, (iv) the relationship between local short-term uses of man’s environment and the maintenance and enhancement of long-term productivity, and (v) any irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources which would be involved in the proposed action should it be implemented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sierra Club v. Hodel“[a]s a practical matter, commitment of resources in one section tends to make further construction more likely,”
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.