Save Yaak Committee v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
840 F.2d 714 · 1988
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 54 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Greenpeace Action v. Franklin, Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. Blackwood (1998)
85 federal appellate · 54 district · 4 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. § 1532 (§ 3 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1540 (§ 11 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 42 U.S.C. § 6972
Relies on Amoco Production Co. v. Village of Gambell · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Andrus v. Sierra Club · Massa v. United States · California v. Block
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]gency action taken without observance of the procedure required by law will be set aside.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Preston · Sierra Club v. Trump“[p]roper timing is one of NEPA's central themes. An assessment must be `prepared early enough so that it can serve practically as an important contribution to the decisionmaking process and will not be used to rationalize or justify decisions already made.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interdependent parts of a larger action and depend on the larger action for their justification.”
6 later decisions 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.