Zabel v. Tabb’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 199 · 1970
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 12 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy Commission (1971), Bonelli Cattle Co. v. Arizona (1973)
80 federal appellate · 12 district · 15 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
Relies on Wickard v. Filburn · United States v. Darby · Quercia v. United States · Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States · Morgan v. United States
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“essentially states that every federal agency shall consider ecological factors when dealing with activities which may have an impact on man's environment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Act covers both building of structures and the excavating and filling in navigable waters. It is structured as a flat prohibition unless — the unless being the issuance of approval by the Secretary [of the Army] after recommendation of the Chief of Engineers . . . Although the Act has always been read as tempering the outright prohibition by the rule of reason against arbitrary action, the Act does flatly forbid the obstruction.” 430 F.2d at 207 .”
3 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.