Strycker's Bay Neighborhood Council, Inc. v. Karlen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
255 federal appellate · 165 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 797 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Owen v. City of Independence (1980), Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council (1989)
255 federal appellate · 165 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedKarlen v. Harris (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 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) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Dove 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 797 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interject itself within the area of discretion of the executive as to the choice of the action to be taken.”
53 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“study, develop, and describe appropriate alternatives to recommend courses of action in any proposal which involves unresolved conflicts concerning alternative uses of available resources.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither [NEPA] nor its legislative history contemplates that a court should substitute its judgment for that of the agency as to the environmental consequences of its actions.”
4 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.