Fund for Animals v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.3d 128 · 1996
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Baur v. Veneman (2003), Alaska Center for the Environment v. U.S. Forest Service (1999)
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 16 U.S.C. § 669 (Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 669A · 16 U.S.C. § 669B · 16 U.S.C. § 669E · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4341 (§ 201 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Alfaro Motors, Inc. v. Ward · Comer v. Cisneros · Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Jefferson Lines, Inc. · Competitive Enterprise Institute v. National Highway Traffic Safety 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [Counsel on Environmental Quality] has authorized the use of categorical exclusions to promote efficiency in the NEPA review process”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“free to affirm [a] district court [decision] on any [ground] for which there is a record sufficient to permit conclusions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“was neither ruled on by the district court nor fully briefed by the parties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Baur v. Veneman
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.