Independence Mining Co. v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2013
2 federal appellate · 2 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 30 U.S.C. § 22
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Telecommunications Research & Action Center v. Federal Communications Commission · California Coastal Commission v. Granite Rock Co. · Benson Mining & Smelting Co. v. Alta Mining & Smelting Co. · Public Citizen Health Research Group v. Commissioner, Food & Drug Administration
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here [an] agency has manifested bad faith, as by singling someone out for bad treatment or asserting utter indifference to a congressional deadline, the agency will have a hard time claiming legitimacy for its priorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“) which the Secretary instituted. He terminated a four-month pilot program allowing private contractors to perform mineral examinations, and initiated a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court need not find any impropriety lurking behind agency lassitude in order to hold that agency action is unreasonably delayed.”
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.