Steubing v. Brinegar’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1997 · most notably Sierra Club v. Slater (1997), Coalition for Canyon Preservation v. Bowers (1980)
24 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 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Eisenstadt v. Baker · Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy Commission · Mitchell v. Woodworth · Presidents Council, District 25 v. Community School Board No. 25 · Greene County Planning Board v. Federal Power Commission
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The substantial additional costs which would be caused by court-ordered delay”
1 later decision 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.