Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Higginson’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 1244 · 1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2005
5 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Andrus v. Sierra Club · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist · The Wilderness Society v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination of the region, if any, with respect to which a comprehensive statement is necessary requires the weighing of a number of relevant factors, including the extent of the interrelationship among the proposed actions and practical considerations of feasibility. Resolving these issues requires a high level of technical expertise and is properly left to the informed discretion of the responsible federal agencies. Absent a showing of arbitrary action, we must assume that the agencies have exercised this discretion appropriately. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“comprehensive impact statement may be necessary in some cases for an agency to meet (its duty under NEPA). Thus, when several proposals for coal-related actions that will have cumulative or synergistic environmental impact upon a region are pending concurrently before an agency, their environmental consequences must be considered together. Only through comprehensive consideration of pending proposals can an agency evaluate different courses of action. Id. at 409-10, 96 S.Ct. at 2729-30 (Footnotes omitted.)”
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.