Valley Citizens for A Safe Environment v. Aldridge’s Empirical Analysis
886 F.2d 458 · 1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 20 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Citizens Against Burlington, Inc. v. Busey (1991), Dubois v. United States Department of Agriculture (1996)
26 federal appellate · 20 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 2342 · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Camp v. Pitts · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“highly technical, environmental matters,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he relevant legal question ... is normally whether the Statement is 'adequate' in light of the information and comments before the agency at the time it produced the Statement”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the place to attack standard methodology, at least in the first instance, is before the agency, not before a reviewing court.”
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.