New York v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 574 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably American Mining Congress v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (1990), Michigan v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2000)
24 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. § 294 · 42 U.S.C. § 7401 (Air Quality Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 7408 · 42 U.S.C. § 7409 · 42 U.S.C. § 7410 · 42 U.S.C. § 7411 · 42 U.S.C. § 7424 · 42 U.S.C. § 7426
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Chemical Manufacturers Association v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Public Citizen Health Research Group v. Tyson · Sierra Club 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“second-guess the scientific judgments of the EPA.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“areas. A nonattainment area is one that either does not meet the national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard for ozone, or that contributes to ozone levels in a nearby area that does not meet the standard. See 42 U.S.C. 7407(d). Allied's contention principally relies on two subsections of section 183(e). First, subsection (2)(A) requires EPA to study VOC emissions in order to determine their potential”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as long as Congress delegates power to an agency to regulate on the borders of the unknown, courts cannot interfere with reasonable interpretations of equivocal evidence”
2 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.