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760 F.2d 976 · 1985

Citation profile

200

cited by 200 later decisions

states following

April 2022

most recently cited

90 federal appellate · 37 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 200 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably The Lands Council v. McNair (2008), Greenpeace Action v. Franklin

90 federal appellate · 37 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 16 U.S.C. § 1532 (§ 3 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1539 (§ 10 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 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. § 706

Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · California v. Block · City of Davis v. Coleman · Lojek v. Thomas

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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“NEPA does not require that we decide whether an [environmental assessment] is based on the best scientific methodology available, nor does NEPA require us to resolve disagreements among various scientists as to methodology.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Griffin v. Yuetter US · Wetlands Action Network v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
“major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Jones v. Gordon · Conner v. Burford
“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. J.L. v. Cissna · Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative v. Brown

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.