Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air v. Pennsylvania’s Empirical Analysis
678 F.2d 470 · 1982
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air (1986), Littlejohn v. BIC Corp. (1988)
22 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hutto v. Finney · National League of Cities v. Usery · Shillitani v. United States · Maggio v. Zeitz · United States v. Mississippi
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These arguments disregard the fact that the Commonwealth itself was and remains bound by the consent decree.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Helen L., Beverly D., Florence H., Ilene F., Idell S., and American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today ("a.d.a.p.t."), Idell S. v. Albert L. Didario, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of Norristown State Hospital, and Karen F. Snider, in Her Capacity as Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Karen F. Snider · Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air v. Commonwealth“prohibited the expenditure of state funds by the executive branch for the implementation of [that program]. Although the Governor vetoed the bill, the legislature overrode the veto and enacted [the legislation] into law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Helen L., Beverly D., Florence H., Ilene F., Idell S., and American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today ("a.d.a.p.t."), Idell S. v. Albert L. Didario, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of Norristown State Hospital, and Karen F. Snider, in Her Capacity as Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Karen F. Snider · Helen v. L F F“The standard of our review of a district court sanction for civil contempt is whether the district court abused its wide discretion in fashioning a remedy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.