Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1,442 federal appellate · 680 district · 393 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,319 later decisions (108 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992), Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. (1982)
1,442 federal appellate · 680 district · 393 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 1252 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1337 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 2012 · 42 U.S.C. § 2014 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Warth v. Seldin · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Baker v. Carr
Cited together with Warth v. Seldin · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood · Baker v. Carr
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 4,319 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a classic example of an economic regulation--a legislative effort to structure and accommodate 'the burdens and benefits of economic life.'”
101 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alleged such a personal stake in the outcome of the controversy as to assure that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends for illumination of difficult constitutional questions.”
77 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently substantial and colorable to sustain jurisdiction.”
23 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.