Ely v. Velde’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.2d 1130 · 1971
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 16 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Hanly v. Kleindienst (1972), Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Corps of Engineers of United States Army (1972)
86 federal appellate · 16 district · 9 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 470 (National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000) · 16 U.S.C. § 470A · 16 U.S.C. § 470F · 16 U.S.C. § 470J · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3701 · 42 U.S.C. § 3711 (Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998) · 42 U.S.C. § 3733
Relies on United States v. Borden Co. · Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy Commission · Holt v. Alleghany Corp. · United States v. Welden
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“explicate fully its course of inquiry, its analysis and its reasoning.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]iscretion to decide does not include a right to act perfunctorily or arbitrarily”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”
3 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.