Pacific Legal Foundation v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission’s Empirical Analysis
659 F.2d 903 · 1981
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission (1983), Dodd v. Hood River County (1995)
36 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ection 25524.2 is directed towards purposes other than protection against radiation hazards. While Proposition 15 would have required California to judge the safety of a proposed method of waste disposal, section 25524.2 leaves that judgment to the federal government. California is concerned not with the adequacy of the method, but rather with its existence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the authority of any State or local agency to regulate activities for purposes other than protection against radiation hazards.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts are not to seek out conflicts between [local] and federal regulation where none clearly exist.”
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.