American Iron & Steel Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
568 F.2d 284 · 1977
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Small Refiner Lead Phase-Down Task Force v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (1983), California v. Block (1982)
93 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 · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) · E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Train · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Train
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fairly apprise interested persons of the 'subjects and issues' before the Agency.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“means a situation in which the due and required execution of the agency functions would be unavoidably prevented by its undertaking public rule-making proceedings.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kollett ex rel. Gomes v. Harris · The National Nutritional Foods Association, the National Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Solgar Co., Inc. v. Donald Kennedy, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, and United States Department of Health, Education & Welfare, Food and Drug Administration, Miles H. Robinson, Pro Se v. Donald Kennedy, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, and United States Department of Health, Education & Welfare, Food and Drug Administration“to fairly apprise interested parties of all significant subjects and issues involved,”
5 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.