United States Environmental Protection Agency v. Environmental Waste Control, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 327 · 1990
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Hayward (1993), United States v. Marine Shale Processors (1996)
17 federal appellate · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 6902 · 42 U.S.C. § 6924 · 42 U.S.C. § 6925 · 42 U.S.C. § 6928 · 42 U.S.C. § 9613 (§ 113 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Amoco Production Co. v. Village of Gambell · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · City of Milwaukee v. Illinois · Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Lamphier
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the law of injunctions differs with respect to governmental plaintiffs ... as opposed to private individuals. Where the plaintiff is a sovereign and where the activity may endanger the public health, "injunctive relief is proper, without resort to balancing.' Second in the case of public health legislation, the emphasis shifts from irreparable injury to concern for the general public interest."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“committed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and will be reversed only upon a showing that the district court abused its discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is an accepted equitable principle that a court does not have to balance the equities in a case where the defendant's conduct has been willful.”
1 later decision 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.