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E.P.A. v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P.’s Empirical Analysis

572 U.S. 489 · 2014

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
8
cited 8 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
July 2025
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 7401 (Air Quality Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 7402 · 42 U.S.C. § 7408 · 42 U.S.C. § 7410 · 42 U.S.C. § 7511A · 42 U.S.C. § 7607 · 5 U.S.C. § 706

Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · United States v. Mead Corp. · Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp. · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital

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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The possibility that the rule, in uncommon particular applications, might exceed [the agency]'s statutory authority does not warrant judicial condemnation of the rule in its entirety.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “[C]ourts must presume that [Congress] says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says there.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “[A] court's task is to apply the text of [a] statute, not to improve upon it.”
    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.