American Bird Conservancy, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.3d 1027 · 2008
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership v. Salazar (2010), Delaware Riverkeeper Network v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (2014)
9 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 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 16 U.S.C. § 1531 (§ 2 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 701 · 16 U.S.C. § 703 (Arctic Tundra Habitat Emergency Conservation Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2342 · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 47 U.S.C. § 403
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Ohio Forestry Association Inc v. Sierra Club · Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, capricious, . . . or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
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.