Richland Park Homeowners Ass'n v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 935 · 1982
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Sierra Club v. Sigler (1983), Seymour v. Summa Vista Cinema, Inc. (1987)
23 federal appellate · 3 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 Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · Thompson v. United States · St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Barry · Strycker's Bay Neighborhood Council, Inc. v. Karlen
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he basic thrust of NEPA legislation is to provide assistance for evaluating proposals for prospective federal action in the light of their future effect upon environment factors, not to serve as a basis for after-the-fact critical evaluation subsequent to substantial completion of construction ... the courts have been reluctant, at least in the absence of blatant bad-faith violations, to grant relief after the challenged project has been substantially or wholly completed, even in instances where the agency ... has acted in violation of NEPA-mandated precon-struction procedures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nitial noncompliance [under NEPA] does not preclude eventual compliance.”
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.