McClellan Ecological Seepage Situation v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 325 · 1995
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably American Postal Workers Union v. Potter, Arco Environmental Remediation v. Department of Health and Environmental Quality of the State of Montana (2000)
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 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 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 42 U.S.C. § 6925 · 42 U.S.C. § 6930 · 42 U.S.C. § 9613 (§ 113 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Ardestani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Brown v. Gardner · United States v. Houser · North Shore Gas Company v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o Federal court shall have jurisdiction ... to review any challenges to removal or remedial action selected under [CERCLA section 104.]”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“protect[ ] the execution of a CERCLA plan during its pendency from lawsuits that might interfere with the expeditious cleanup effort.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]very action that increases the cost of a cleanup or diverts resources or personnel from it does not thereby become a 'challenge' to the cleanup.”
5 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.