Waste Management of North America, Inc. v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 1393 · 1988
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. United States (1989), Bryant v. Ford Motor Co. (1989)
18 federal appellate · 1 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 31 U.S.C. § 3551 · 31 U.S.C. § 3552 · 31 U.S.C. § 3554 · 31 U.S.C. § 3556 · 42 U.S.C. § 6901 (Federal Facility Compliance Act of 1992) · 42 U.S.C. § 6961 · 42 U.S.C. § 6972
Relies on Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · Save Yaak Committee 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny person may commence a civil action on his own behalf — (1)(A) against any person (including (a) the United States, and (b) any other governmental instrumentality or agency, to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment to the Constitution) who is alleged to be in violation of any permit, standard, regulation, condition, requirement, prohibition, or order which has become effective pursuant to this chapter. ...”
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.