Silva v. Romney’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.2d 287 · 1973
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Action for Children's Television v. Federal Communications Commission (1977), Minnesota Public Interest Research Group v. Butz (1974)
40 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 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 12 U.S.C. § 1701C · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 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) · 5 U.S.C. § 705
Relies on Eisenstadt v. Baker · Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co · Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy Commission · Federal Trade Commission v. Dean Foods Co. · Ivanhoe Irrigation District v. McCracken
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to a sense of growing uneasiness in seeing decisions determining the obligations of federal and non-federal parties under NEPA turn on any one interim step in the development of the partnership between the parties. Such an approach unrealistically stresses adventitious factors which bear little relationship to either the broad concerns of NEPA or the interests of the potential grantee, private or public. Id. at 290 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“These duties are not discretionary, but are specifically mandated by Congress, and are to be reflected in the procedural process by which agencies render decisions. Silva v. Romney, 473 F.2d 287, 292 (1st Cir. 1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“major Federal action[s] significantly affecting the environment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Proetta v. Dent
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.