Brown v. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 827 · 1975
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1997 · most notably Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. (1981), Printz v. United States (1997)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1857 · 42 U.S.C. § 1857C · 42 U.S.C. § 7405 · 42 U.S.C. § 7407 · 42 U.S.C. § 7410 · 42 U.S.C. § 7411 · 42 U.S.C. § 7412 · 42 U.S.C. § 7413
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'"And we think it clear, said Chief Justice Taney in the latter case [Kentucky v. Dennison, 65 U.S. (24 How.) 66 , 16 L. Ed. 717 (I860)], 'that the Federal Government, under the Constitution, has no power to impose on a State officer, as such, any duty whatever, and compel him to perform it.’ Taney’s statement can stand today ...””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 52.241 Gasoline limitations. (a) Definitions: (1) ‘Distributor’ means any person or entity that transports, stores, or causes the transportation or storage of gasoline between any refinery and any retail outlet. (2) ‘Retail outlet’ means any establishment at which gasoline is sold or offered for sale to the public, or introduced into any vehicle. (b) This regulation is applicable in the Metropolitan Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and San Diego Intrastate Air Quality Control Regions (the ‘Regions’) to all distributors of gasoline to any retail outlet in the Regions, and to the owners and operators of all retail outlets in the Regions. (c) If the Administrator determines, on the basis of air quality monitoring in the Regions, that the national ambient air quality standards for carbon monoxide and photochemical oxidants will not be attained in a Region by May 31,1977, the Administrator shall implement a program, to be effective no later than May 31, 1977, limiting the total gallonage of gasoline delivered to retail outlets in that Region to that amount which, when combusted, will not result in the ambient air quality standards being exceeded. (d) All distributors to which this section applies shall provide the Administrator with a detailed annual accounting of the amount of gasoline delivered to each retail outlet in the Regions for calendar year 1976 and for each calendar year during which the gasoline limitation program is in effe”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our interpretation is in no way inconsistent with the recognition that Congress has the power to authorize the Administrator to obtain the consent of a reluctant state by conditioning certain federal expenditures within that state on the granting of such consent. See Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548 , 57 S.Ct. 883 , 81 L.Ed. 1279 (1937).”
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.