Association of Pacific Fisheries v. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 794 · 1980
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Costle (1981), Asarco, Inc. v. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (1980)
54 federal appellate · 8 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1251 · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1314
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · Environmental Protection Agency v. California Ex Rel. State Water Resources Control Board · Portland Cement Ass'n v. Ruckelshaus · 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a new rationalization either for sustaining or attacking the [a]gency's decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court's `inquiry will be limited to whether the Agency considered the cost of technology, along with the other statutory factors, and whether its conclusion is reasonable.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the Agency proceeded upon assumptions that were entirely fictional or utterly without scientific support”
2 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.