Hale v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.3d 694 · 2007
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2023
7 federal appellate ·
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. § 1 (National Park Police Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 3170 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 704
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Bennett v. Spear · Behrens v. Pelletier
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll of its bridges have washed away, and the effects of vegetation and erosion have reduced it to little more than a trail”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the NPS conducts the NEPA analysis. If the Hales must wait until after the analysis is performed to challenge the NPS's permitting decision, any question about the applicability of NEPA is likely to fall away. The district court will review the NPS's substantive determination of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hale v. Norton“5 The NPS promptly responded by letter, requesting more information about the nature of the emergency and the proposed bulldozer use. In particular, the letter articulated the NPS's concern that the Hales were planning to run the bulldozer over the route before”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hale v. Norton
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.