Train v. Colorado Public Interest Research Group, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
328 federal appellate · 51 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 799 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc (1985), Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
328 federal appellate · 51 district · 31 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
reviewedColorado Public Interest Research Group, Inc. v. Train (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1316 · 33 U.S.C. § 1342 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362 · 33 U.S.C. § 1365 · 33 U.S.C. § 1370 · 33 U.S.C. § 1371
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Wood v. Strickland
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 799 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When aid to construction of the meaning of words, as used in the statute, is available, there certainly can be no 'rule of law' which forbids its use, however clear the words may appear on 'superficial examination.'”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“which forbids its use, however clear the words may appear on”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage, sludge, munitions, chemical waste, biological, materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.”
2 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.