FMC Corp. v. Train’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 973 · 1976
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Costle (1978), 597 F. Supp. 740 - In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation (1984)
44 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · Portland Cement Ass'n v. Ruckelshaus · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Train · American Iron & Steel Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While EPA must take seriously its statutory duty to consider cost, courts of review should be mindful of the many problems inherent in an undertaking of this nature and uphold a reasonable effort made by the Agency.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he choice of statistical methods is a matter best left to the sound discretion of the [EPA] Administrator.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conservation Law Foundation v. ExxonMobil Corporation · Marathon Oil Company, Union Oil Company of California, Atlantic Richfield Company, and Mobil Oil Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, Shell Oil Company v. Environmental Protection Agency, Marathon Oil Company v. Environmental Protection Agency“no uniform water usage per unit of product manufactured.”
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.