Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp. v. Train’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 620 · 1976
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Train (1977), American Iron & Steel Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency (1977)
55 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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
Relies on Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · Portland Cement Ass'n v. Ruckelshaus · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Train
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“levels based upon the average of the best existing performance by plants of various sizes, ages, and unit processes within each industrial category. 119 1972 Legis.Hist. 170 (statement of Sen. Muskie); see S.Rep. No. 414, 92d Cong., 1st Sess. 50, reprinted in 1972 U.S.Code Cong. & Ad.News 3668, 3716. 51 Unless the present practices of all sources in the category are”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. American Paper Institute v. Train · National Association of Metal Finishers, Electroplaters of York, Inc. And Pioneer Metal Finishing, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, the Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits v. Environmental Protection Agency, Ford Motor Company, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency and Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor. National Association of Metal Finishers and Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits v. Environmental Protection Agency, General Motors Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency and Walter Barber, Acting Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chemical Manufacturers Association, American Cyanamid Company, Fmc Corporation, Union Carbide Corporation, Intervenors. United States Brewers Association v. Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, and Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor. Manufacturing Chemists Association, American Paper Institute, National Forest Products Association, National Paint and Coatings Association, Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., American Cyanamid Company, Fmc Corporation, Hercules Incorporated, Shell Oil Company, and Union Carbide Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor. Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor. National Association of Metal Finishers v. Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor. Chemical Manufacturers Association, American Cyanamid Company, Fmc Corporation, Union Carbide Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor. American Paper Institute and National Forest Products Association v. Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chemical Manufacturers Association, American Cyanamid Company, Fmc Corporation, Union Carbide Corporation, Intervenors. Metal Finishing Association of Southern California v. Environmental Protection Agency, Interlake, Inc., Republic Steel Corporation and United States Steel Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor, American Iron & Steel Institute, Rouge Steel Co., Intervenors. Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry, Illinois Manufacturers' Association, and Mid-American Legal Foundation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor“best available technology economically achievable”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“best practicable control technology currently available”
2 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.