Silver v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2018
1 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1540 (§ 11 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1604 · 25 U.S.C. § 3104 · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · County of Los Angeles v. Davis · Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [Ijmmediately commence re-consultation on existing LRMPS in Region 3 in compliance with Section 7(a)(2) of the ESA and its relevant regulations to consider the listing of the Mexican spotted owl as threatened. (2) Pursuant to Section 7(a)(2) of the ESA ... defer or suspend all timber harvest activities taken pursuant to the Region 3 LRMPs until the required consultation commences. (3) Pursuant to Section 7(d) of the ESA ... defer or suspend all timber harvest activities until the re-consultation on existing and amended LRMPS in Region 3 is complete.”
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.