City of New York v. United States Department of Transportation’s Empirical Analysis
715 F.2d 732 · 1983
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Citizens Against Burlington, Inc. v. Busey (1991), Jersey Central Power & Light Co. v. Township of Lacey (1985)
37 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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 33 U.S.C. § 1314 · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jong Ha Wang · Finch v. Connor
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“study, develop, and describe appropriate alternatives”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that effects are only a possibility does not insulate the proposed action from consideration under NEPA, but it does accord an agency some latitude in determining whether the risk is sufficient to require preparation of an EIS.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“remains something of an anomaly to insist that an agency assess alternatives for an action that it has determined will not have a `significant' effect on the environment.”
3 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.