Thompson v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2015
4 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 6945 · 42 U.S.C. § 6972 · 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9659 (§ 310 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Stump v. Sparkman
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With the exception of paragraph 85(e) of Count III in the amended complaint, the violations that plaintiffs allege defendants have committed are found in the applicable subchapter and have thus been superseded by Pennsylvania’s state program. Cf. Thompson v. Thomas, 680 F.Supp. 1, 3 (D.D.C.1987) (“The EPA has authorized the State of Wisconsin to administer and enforce its own hazardous waste program in lieu of the federal program dealing with hazardous wastes. Thus, the violations which the plaintiff alleges 3M has committed under the federal regulations promulgated under RCRA have been superseded in Wisconsin by the state regulations”). These paragraphs must therefore be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fed.R.Civ.P. 17(a) requires that 'every action shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest.' As is evident from the allegations of the complaint, the real party in interest is the corporation, not the two individual plaintiffs who are its ... officers.”
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.