Environmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 1309 · 1988
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably American Iron & Steel Institute v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989), Solite Corporation v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and William K. Reilly, Administrator, Epa, the Aluminum Association, Intervenors (1992)
18 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 292 · 42 U.S.C. § 6903 · 42 U.S.C. § 6921 · 42 U.S.C. § 6924 · 42 U.S.C. § 6944 · 42 U.S.C. § 6945 · 42 U.S.C. § 6946 · 42 U.S.C. § 6982
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Chemical Manufacturers Association v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Environmental Defense Fund v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“EPA's interpretation of the Bevill Amendment as allowing the agency discretion to base its regulatory determination on a variety of factors,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“use federal financial and technical assistance to develop solid waste management plans in accordance with [the] federal guidelines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]olid waste from the extraction, beneficiation, and processing of ores and minerals.”
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.