City of Aurora v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
749 F.2d 1457 · 1984
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Olenhouse v. Commodity Credit Corp. (1994), Sierra Club v. Hodel (1988)
39 federal appellate · 21 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 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Udall v. Tallman · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Larionoff
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n agency need not analyze the environmental consequences of alternatives it has in good faith rejected as too remote, speculative, or as in this case, impractical or ineffective.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall involve environmental agencies, applicants, and the public, to the extent practicable, in preparing [environmental] assessments [required by NEPA].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment”
4 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.