Coalition for Health Concern v. LWD, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 1188 · 1995
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably PMC, Inc. v. Sherwin-Williams Co. (1998), United States v. Pope (1998)
17 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1365 · 42 U.S.C. § 6924 · 42 U.S.C. § 6925 · 42 U.S.C. § 6926 · 42 U.S.C. § 6972 · 42 U.S.C. § 9603 (§ 103 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans · Gwaltney of Smithfield, Ltd. v. Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) when there are difficult questions of state law bearing on policy problems of substantial public import whose importance transcends the result in the case then at bar; or (2) where the exercise of federal review of the question in a case and in similar cases would be disruptive of state efforts to establish a coherent policy with respect to a matter of substantial public concern.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to restrain any person who has contributed or who is contributing to the past or present handling, storage, treatment, transportation, or disposal of any solid or hazardous waste ..., to order such person to take such other action as may be necessary, or both....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“claim[s] that a state agency has misapplied its lawful authority or has failed to take into consideration or properly weigh relevant state-law factors”
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.