Forest Conservation Council v. Espy’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2018
8 federal appellate · 5 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 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1538 (§ 9 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1540 (§ 11 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1600 (Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974) · 16 U.S.C. § 1604 · 16 U.S.C. § 3210 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the 60-day notice provision is to put the agencies on notice of a perceived violation of the statute and an intent to sue. When given notice, the agencies have an opportunity to review their actions and take corrective measures if warranted. The provision therefore provides an opportunity for settlement or other resolution of a dispute without litigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“significant new circumstances or information relevant to environmental concerns and bearing on the proposed action or its impacts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'affec[t] the quality of the ... environment' in a significant manner or to a significant extent not already considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.