Phillips Petroleum Co. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 545 · 1986
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. Blackfeet Tribe of Blackfeet Indian Reservation (1991), Wyoming v. United States Department of Agriculture (2011)
27 federal appellate · 2 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 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 300F · 42 U.S.C. § 300H · 42 U.S.C. § 6901 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Udall v. Tallman · Singleton v. Wulff · McGee v. International Life Insurance
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not empowered to substitute [our] judgment for that of the agency”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 1421(d)(1), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 300h(d)(1). Underground injection is a potentially widespread hazardous waste disposal practice that poses serious threats to groundwater sources of drinking water. [In enacting the SDWA,] Congress was particularly aware of the potential adverse effects of oil and gas related injection. The House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce noted the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]nergy production companies are using injection techniques to increase production and dispose of unwanted brines brought to the surface during production.... Part C [of the SDWA] is intended to deal with all of the foregoing situations insofar as they may endanger underground drinking water sources.”
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.