Airport Neighbors Alliance, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.3d 426 · 1996
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Utahns for Better Transportation v. United States Department of Transportation (2002), Davis v. Mineta (2002)
36 federal appellate · 15 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
Relies on Fw/pbs Inc II v. City of Dallas Mjr Inc · Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Brown v. United States · Federal Election Commission v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Trout Unlimited v. Morton
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressed the test for whether particular actions could be considered cumulative impacts of the proposed action as whether the actions were so interdependent that it would be unwise or irrational to complete one without the others.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requiring a cumulative EIS analyzing possible future actions postulated in a twenty-year Master Plan that are far from certain would result in a `gross misallocation of resources, would trivialize NEPA and would diminish its utility in providing useful environmental analysis for major federal actions that truly affect the environment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An agency decision concerning which alternatives to consider is necessarily bound by a rule of reason and practicality.”
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.