Natural Resources Defense Council v. United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Empirical Analysis
915 F.2d 1314 · 1990
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Gaston Copper Recycling Corp. (2000), Longview Fibre Co. v. Rasmussen (1992)
33 federal appellate · 4 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 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1288 · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1312 · 33 U.S.C. § 1313 · 33 U.S.C. § 1314 · 33 U.S.C. § 1315 · 33 U.S.C. § 1317
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Environmental Protection Agency v. California Ex Rel. State Water Resources Control Board · United States v. Motamedi
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act, which made important amendments to the water pollution laws. The amendments place certain limits on what an individual firm could discharge ... The Act thus banned only discharges from point sources. The discharge of pollutants from nonpoint sources — for example, the runoff of pesticides from farmlands — was not directly prohibited. The Act focused on point source polluters presumably because they could be identified and regulated more easily that [sic] nonpoint source polluters.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not require states to penalize nonpoint source polluters who fail to adopt best management practices; rather it provides for grants to encourage the adoption of such practices.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires a familiarity with the history, the structure, and, alas, the jargon of the federal water pollution laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guido A. Pronsolino Betty J. Pronsolino, as Trustees for the Guido A. Pronsolino and Betty J. Pronsolino Trust the Mendocino County Farm Bureau the California Farm Bureau Federation the American Farm Bureau Federation v. Wayne Nastri, Regional Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 Christie Whitman, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency United States Environmental Protection Agency, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, a California Non-Profit Corporation San Francisco Baykeeper, a California Public Benefit Corporation Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees. Guido A. Pronsolino v. Wayne Nastri, Regional Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 Christie Whitman, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency United States Environmental Protection Agency, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, a California Non Profit Corporation San Francisco Baykeeper, a California Public Benefit Corporation, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees v. American Forest & Paper Association California Forestry Association, Plaintiff-Intervenors-Appellants · Pronsolino
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.