John D. Robinson, Jr. v. John A. Knebel, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 422 · 1977
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Mason County Medical Ass'n v. Knebel (1977), Port of Astoria v. Hodel (1979)
16 federal appellate · 6 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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Sierra Club v. Morton · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Inc v. B Camp Barlow · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Morton
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“environmental concerns [were] not so insignificant that they ought to be disregarded altogether”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a formal and mathematically precise cost-benefit analysis of proposed agency action. Specific assignment of dollar value to environmental factors, which are frequently not amenable to quantification, may not be necessary if the impact statement otherwise recognizes, discusses, and weighs the favorable and adverse effects of agency action. Robinson v. Knebel, 550 F.2d 422, 426 (8th Cir. 1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he discussion of alternatives need not be exhaustive if the impact statement presents sufficient information for a reasoned choice of alternatives.”
1 later decision 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.