Conner v. Burford’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 1521 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2020
5 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1531 (§ 2 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 30 U.S.C. § 181 (Coal Market Competition Act of 2000) · 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) · 43 U.S.C. § 1331 (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006) · 43 U.S.C. § 1337 · 43 U.S.C. § 1340
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proceeded to a judgment setting aside the agency actions allowing the issuance of oil and gas leases. 42 Appellees do not challenge the lessees' assertion that mineral leaseholders in the two forests would ordinarily be considered persons to be joined if joinder is feasible (necessary parties). 43 Rather they contend that their suit falls within the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alternative without the preparation of an EIS, the government subverts NEPA's goal of insuring that federal agencies infuse in project planning a thorough consideration of environmental values. The”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is conveyed priorities in submitting plans for development of these tracts; it has not obligated itself to approve any of these plans. As such, the leasing stage under the terms of the leases before us is as discrete a stage as that mandated by the OCSLA. See Secretary of Interior v. California, 464 U.S. 312, 339 , 104 S.Ct. 656, 670 , 78 L.Ed.2d 496 (1984). 79 The ESA still obligates the agency to perform appropriate biological studies before a leaseholder can engage in any surface-disturbing activities at all on the tracts. As the majority reminds us,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Conner v. Burford
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.