Surface Mining Regulation Litigation American Mining Congress Amherst Coal Company Sunoco Energy Development Company’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 1346 · 1980
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. (1981), Hodel v. Indiana (1981)
49 federal appellate · 14 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 Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'effect must be given, if possible, to every word, clause and sentence of a statute.' ... so that no part will be inoperative or superfluous, void or insignificant.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. National Association of Recycling Industries, Inc. v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America, Association of American Railroads, Aluminum Association, Inc., Intervenors. National Association of Recycling Industries, Inc. v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel, Inc., National Steel Corporation (79-1582) American Paper Institute, Inc. (79-1590), Intervenors · 610 F. Supp. 1329 - Texasgulf, Inc. v. United Gas Pipe Line Co.“a nationwide program to protect society and the environment from the adverse effects of surface coal mining operations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“executive orders without specific foundation in congressional action are not judicially enforceable in private civil suits.”
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.