Amoco Production Co. v. Village of Gambell’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
534 federal appellate · 661 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,797 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (2008), United States v. Sharpe (1985)
534 federal appellate · 661 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 719 (Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act of 1976) · 15 U.S.C. § 719B · 16 U.S.C. § 1361 (§ 2 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972) · 16 U.S.C. § 1431 (Marine Sanctuaries Amendments of 1984) · 16 U.S.C. § 1451 (Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 1531 (§ 2 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1801 (American Fisheries Promotion Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 1811
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Richards v. United States · University of Texas v. Camenisch
Cited together with Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo · Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe
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 2,797 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Environmental injury, by its nature, can seldom be adequately remedied by money damages and is often permanent or at least of long duration, i.e., irreparable. If such injury is sufficiently likely, therefore, the balance of harms will usually favor the issuance of an injunction to protect the environment.”
66 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts must balance the competing claims of injury and must consider the effect on each party of the granting or withholding of the requested relief.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in so many words, or by a necessary and inescapable inference”
16 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.