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541 F.2d 1018 · 1976

Citation profile

83
cited by 83 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
April 2011
most recently cited

58 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Train (1977), Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Costle (1978)

58 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

41019761980199020002010decided

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 · United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. Wyman-Gordon Co. · Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Peter J. Migliorini v. New York

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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “poorly drafted and astonishingly imprecise statute.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Republic Steel Corp. v. Train · VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER Co. v. Costle
  2. “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. National Crushed Stone Association, Inc. And Luck Quarries, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, Warren Brothers Company, a Division of Ashland Oil Co., Inc., and Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, Arkhola Sand and Gravel Company, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Ashland Oil,inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency · 574 F. Supp. 1381 - 1902 Atlantic Ltd. v. Hudson
  3. “(f)or all sources, both existing and new, we believe that the solution which most nearly satisfies congressional intent is recognition that the regulations are presumptively applicable to permit applications.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Train · Appalachian Power Company v. Russell E. Train, as Administrator Environmental Protection Agency, Alabama Power Company, Intervenors

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.