Engine Manufacturers Ass'n v. South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
155 federal appellate · 39 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 413 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. (2009), Wyeth v. Levine (2009)
155 federal appellate · 39 district · 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedEngine Manufacturers Ass'n v. South Coast Air Quality Management District (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 7401 (Air Quality Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 7507 · 42 U.S.C. § 7521 · 42 U.S.C. § 7522 · 42 U.S.C. § 7543 · 42 U.S.C. § 7586
Relies on Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · Park 'N Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park & Fly, Inc. · Huron Portland Cement Company v. City of Detroit Michigan · Wisconsin Public Intervenor v. Mortier
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 413 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be equipped with a certain type of pollution-control device.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Statutory construction must begin with the language employed by Congress and the assumption that the ordinary meaning of that language accurately expresses the legislative purpose.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“state or local 'stan-dardly] relating to the control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.