Carter Day Industries, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
838 F.2d 35 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Chateaugay Corporation v. Ltv Corporation Ltv State of New York (1991), Voluntary Purchasing Groups, Inc. v. Reilly (1989)
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 11 U.S.C. § 1101 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 554 · 11 U.S.C. § 701 · 28 U.S.C. § 157 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 9604 (§ 104 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9606 (§ 106 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Toilet Goods Association v. Wga Rdner · Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil Co. · Ohio v. Kovacs · Toilet Goods Association v. W Gardner
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a case of actual controversy ... any court of the United States, upon the filing of an appropriate pleading, may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought. Any such declaration shall have the force and effect of a final judgment or decree....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he conflict begins at a basic level, since the goal of CERCLA — cleaning up toxic waste sites promptly and holding liable those responsible for the pollution — is at odds with the premise of bankruptcy, which is to allow a debtors a fresh start by freeing them from liability.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f the EPA is forced to expend its resources on preserving its rights to eventual recovery against any PRP ... the EPA will have less ability to pursue its primary mission of cleaning the sites.... Congress has directed the courts to be especially wary of interfering with CERCLA work ... in part because toxic waste sites threaten the public health and must be eradicated quickly.”
2 later decisions 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.