Exxon Corporation v. Russell E. Train and Jack E. Ravan’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.2d 1310 · 1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Town of Norfolk v. United States Army Corps of Engineers (1992), Sierra Club v. Train (1977)
19 federal appellate · 6 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 United States v. American Trucking Associations · Environmental Protection Agency v. California Ex Rel. State Water Resources Control Board · Train v. Colorado Public Interest Research Group, Inc. · E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Train · United States v. Ohio Power Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.... We make this equation because neither party before us argues that the disposal into wells at issue here ... is disposal into anything other than groundwaters. Specifically, EPA has not argued that the wastes disposed of into wells here do, or might,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mr. Chairman, in the early deliberations within the committee which resulted in the introduction of H.R. 11896, a provision for ground waters, similar to that suggested by the gentleman from Wisconsin, was thoroughly reviewed and it was determined by the committee that there was not sufficient information on ground waters to justify the types of controls that are required for navigable waters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985,”
2 later decisions 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.