New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection v. United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 1038 · 1980
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 25 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably American Hospital Ass'n v. Bowen (1987), Alcaraz v. Block (1984)
64 federal appellate · 25 district · 9 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 National Cable Television Assn., Inc. v. United States · United States Steel Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency · Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Costle · Environmental Protection Agency v. Brown · Humana of South Carolina, Inc. v. Califano
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“narrowly construed and only reluctantly countenanced.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the finding and a brief statement of reasons therefor in the rules issued) that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Impracticable" 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. "Unnecessary" means unnecessary so far as the public is concerned, as would be the case if a minor or merely technical amendment in which the public is not particularly interested were involved. "Public interest" supplements the terms "impracticable" or "unnecessary;" it requires that public rule-making procedures shall not prevent an agency from operating, and that, on the other hand, lack of public interest in rule making warrants an agency to dispense with public procedure.”
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.