Hanly v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 640 · 1972
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 28 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably 13 Cal. 3d 68 - No Oil, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles (1974), Aberdeen & Rockfish R. Co. v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) (1975)
78 federal appellate · 28 district · 11 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 42 U.S.C. § 4331 (§ 101 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy Commission · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Morton · Mitchell v. Woodworth · Greene County Planning Board v. Federal Power Commission
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 172 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 · from the majority“[NEPA] contains no exhaustive list of so-called 'environmental considerations,' but without question its aims extend beyond sewage and garbage and even beyond water and air pollution.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for an agency not to take into account all relevant factors in making its determination.”
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.