CPC International, Inc. v. Train’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.2d 1329 · 1976
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2002 · most notably E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Train (1977), Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Costle (1978)
24 federal appellate · 1 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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · American Meat Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency · United States v. Librach · American Iron & Steel Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency · Thornton v. Carter
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no language in § 306 requiring a cost-benefit analysis. Rather, EPA is required only to take costs under `consideration.' We conclude, therefore, that a cost-benefit analysis is not required in determining the reasonableness of the cost of achieving the new source standards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n establishing or revising Federal standards of performance for new sources ... the Administrator shall take into consideration the cost of achieving such effluent reduction, and any non-water quality environmental impact and energy requirements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under our ruling, the limitations written unto individual permits for existing point sources should be substantially similar to those written into permits if the EPA's theory of the Act were to be adopted.”
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.