Goos v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
911 F.2d 1283 · 1990
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Greenpeace Action v. Franklin, Buffalo Township v. Jones (2002)
60 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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. § 1247 · 28 U.S.C. § 2344 · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 49 U.S.C. § 10903 · 49 U.S.C. § 10906 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Sierra Club 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“focuses on activities of the federal government and does not require federal review of 'the environmental consequences of private decisions or actions, or those of state or local governments.' " Goos, supra, 911 F.2d at 1293 (citations omitted). Regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) 3 provide that "major Federal actions”
3 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.