Aransas Project v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.3d 641 · 2014
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1531 (§ 2 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1532 (§ 3 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1539 (§ 10 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1540 (§ 11 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · O'Shea v. Littleton
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a philosophical sense, the consequences of an act go forward to eternity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Where timely and adequate state-court review is available, a federal court sitting in equity must decline to interfere with the proceedings or orders of state administrative agencies: (1) when there are “difficult questions of state law bearing on policy problems of substantial public import whose importance transcends the result in the case then at bar”; or (2) where the “exercise of federal review of the question in a case and in similar cases would be disruptive of state efforts to establish a coherent poli cy with respect to a matter of substantial public concern.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In deciding whether to reopen evidence, a court should weigh 'the importance and probative value of the evidence, the reason for the moving party's failure to introduce the evidence earlier, and the possibility of prejudice to the non-moving party.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Snider v. Snider
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.