Tongass Conservation Society v. Cheney’s Empirical Analysis
924 F.2d 1137 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Citizens Against Burlington, Inc. v. Busey (1991), Laguna Greenbelt, Inc. v. United States Department of Transportation (1994)
6 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 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. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins · Oregon Environmental Council v. Kunzman · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Hodel · Committee for Auto Responsibility v. Solomon
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an environmental impact statement is prepared and economic or social and natural or physical environmental effects are interrelated, then the environmental impact statement will discuss all of these effects on the human environment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`rule of reason,' which governs both ` which alternatives the agency must discuss' and `the extent to which it must discuss them.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“economic or social effects are not intended by themselves to require preparation of an environmental impact statement.”
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.