Exxon Corp. v. Lujan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 30 U.S.C. § 184 · 30 U.S.C. § 185 · 43 U.S.C. § 1761 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 702 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Truong Dinh Hung 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Natural gas contains only the lightest and most volatile of the hydrocarbons.... In association with these hydrocarbons there may be varying quantities of carbon dioxide (CO sub2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen sulphide (H sub2 S), hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he legislative history indicates that the phrase 'for the transportation of oil or natural gas' was added to the statute solely to ensure that the statute did not govern pipelines for water and artificial gas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“You say 'for all pipe-line purposes.' That includes not only natural gas, but artificial gas. Is it not desirable to limit this permission to oil and natural-gas pipe lines?”
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.