Chemical Manufacturers Ass'n v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 1276 · 1989
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Kellstrom (1995), Rybachek v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (1990)
20 federal appellate ·
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. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 2112 · 33 U.S.C. § 1369 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Blum v. Stenson · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air
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.
“an award is usually 'appropriate' when a party has advanced the goals of the statute invoked in the litigation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]y stating that each party was to bear its own costs, we did not rule inferentially that NRDC was not entitled to attorney's fees.... As used in Rule 39, 'costs' merely refers to the expenses of docketing an appeal or preparing and filing briefs and records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“costs of litigation (including reasonable attorney and expert witness fees)”
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.