Sharon Steel Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.2d 377 · 1979
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States Steel Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (1980), Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1983)
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Ford Motor Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Environmental Protection Agency v. Brown · American Iron & Steel Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency · Indiana & Michigan Electric Company v. Federal Power Commission, Richmond Power and Light of the City of Richmond, Indiana,intervenors
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(p)rovision of prior notice and comment allows effective participation in the rulemaking process while the decisionmaker is still receptive to information and argument.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“either the terms or substance of the proposed rule or a description of the subjects and issues involved.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)n enacting amendments to the Clean Air Act, Congress gave no explicit indication that it intended to override the procedural safeguards of the APA.”
4 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.