Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
566 U.S. 120 · 2012
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 704 · 28 U.S.C. § 2461 (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1319 · 33 U.S.C. § 1344 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362 · 5 U.S.C. § 500 · 5 U.S.C. § 704
Relies on Bennett v. Spear · United States v. Fausto · Block v. Community Nutrition Institute · United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc. · Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp.
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the Sacketts cannot initiate [an enforcement] process, and each day they wait for the agency to drop the hammer, they accrue, by the Government's telling, an additional $75,000 in potential liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the EPA determines that any person is in violation of [the CWA], the Act directs the agency either to issue a compliance order or to initiate a civil enforcement action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“section of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1319 . The Administrator's order made enforceable factual findings and legal conclusions that the Sacketts' property included”
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.