Homeowners Emergency Life Protection Committee v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 814 · 1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2002
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Flint Ridge Development Company v. Scenic Rivers Association of Oklahoma a Hills · Ely v. Velde · Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Coleman · City of Boston v. Volpe · San Francisco Tomorrow v. Romney
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In accordance with the customary rule of statutory construction, expressio unius est exclusio alterius, this would indicate that in expressly making only one section retroactive, Congress intended all other sections to be operative only from the effective date of the Act”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Should the further construction of Los Angeles Dam and Reservoir be en joined pending a determination of the adequacy of the Federal Environmental Impact Statement (EIS); and (2) Whether the EIS itself is adequate.”
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.