Lee v. Thornburgh’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1053 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Coalition for Underground Expansion v. Mineta (2003), Shanks v. Dressel (2008)
16 federal appellate · 8 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 16 U.S.C. § 470 (National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000) · 16 U.S.C. § 470F · 16 U.S.C. § 470H · 16 U.S.C. § 470W · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 6 U.S.C. § 551
Relies on Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation · Common Cause v. Federal Election Commission · Edwards v. First Bank · Techworld Development Corp. v. D.C. Preservation League
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any Federal ... agency having authority to license any undertaking.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the authority to grant or refuse permission”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are aimed solely at discouraging federal agencies from ignoring preservation values in projects they initiate, approve funds for or otherwise control.”
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.