Environmental Protection Agency v. National Crushed Stone Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
294 federal appellate · 70 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 645 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo (1982), Reno v. Catholic Social Services, Inc. (1993)
294 federal appellate · 70 district · 22 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
reviewedNational Crushed Stone Ass'n v. Environmental Protection Agency (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 636 · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1314 · 33 U.S.C. § 1342 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362 · 33 U.S.C. § 1367 · 33 U.S.C. § 1369
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Udall v. Tallman · Harris v. McRae · Environmental Protection Agency v. California Ex Rel. State Water Resources Control Board · E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Train
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 645 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'great deference to the interpretation given the statute by the officers or agency charged with its administration.'”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the total cost of application of technology in relation to the effluent reduction benefits to be achieved from such application.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assessing BAT[,] total cost is no longer to be considered in comparison to effluent reduction benefits,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Southwestern Elec. Power Co. v. U.S. E.P.A. · Texas Oil & Gas Association Marathon Oil Company Trustees for Alaska Natural Resources Defense Council Cook Inlet Keeper National Wildlife Federation Alaska Clean Water Alliance Greenpeace Alaska Center for the Environment Alaska Marine Conservation Council Kachemak Bay Conservation Society Alaska Waveriders Union Oil Co. Ca Phillips Petroleum Shell Oil Co. Railroad Commission of Texas State of Texas v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, American Petroleum Institute v. United States Environmental Protection Agency Carol M. Browner, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Railroad Commission State of Texas v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
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.