Chemical Manufacturers Association v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
501 federal appellate · 118 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,061 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. (1989), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987)
501 federal appellate · 118 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 15 U.S.C. § 3412 · 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 30 U.S.C. § 811 · 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. § 1316 · 33 U.S.C. § 1317
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co.
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 1,061 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a sufficiently rational one to preclude a court from substituting its judgment for that of EPA.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'view of the agency charged with administering the statute is entitled to considerable deference.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“to be sufficiently rational to preclude a court from substituting its judgment for that of [HUD].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.