Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis
685 F.2d 459 · 1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission (1983), Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1983)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 291 · 42 U.S.C. § 2011 · 42 U.S.C. § 2012 · 42 U.S.C. § 4331 (§ 101 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 5801 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interested members of the public, public servants, and legislators.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Congress authorizes and directs that, to the fullest extent possible . . . all agencies of the Federal Government shall . . . include in every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, a detailed statement by the responsible official on— (i) the environmental impact of the proposed action, (ii) any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided should the proposal be implemented, . . ., and (v) any irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources which would be involved in the proposed action should it be implemented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The Commission] has yet to license a private corporation to build a retrievable surface storage facility, if, indeed, such will ever be built. It has yet to choose a site for its proposed long-term repository. And it has yet to license a commercial reprocessing facility, [since the licensing in 1966 of NFS, the opinion might have said by way of qualification], although it now appears that such will be licensed.”
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.