Save Our Ecosystems v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
747 F.2d 1240 · 1984
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 16 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Amoco Production Co. v. Village of Gambell (1987), Thomas v. Peterson (1985)
46 federal appellate · 16 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. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 504 (Equal Access to Justice Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 136 (Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972) · 7 U.S.C. § 136A
Relies on Andrus v. Sierra Club · Ed. Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel for Ed Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, H. O'Neil Shanks, and Norman Stevans, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel For · Rachal v. United States · Scientists' Institute for Public Information, Inc. v. Atomic Energy Commission · California v. Block
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Irreparable damage is presumed when an agency fails to evaluate thoroughly the environmental impact of a proposed action.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'appropriately consider[ing] EPA's data on the herbicides in the specific context of the area in which it proposes to spray.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the information relevant to adverse impacts is essential to a reasoned choice among alternatives and is not known.”
2 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.