Idaho Conservation League v. Mumma’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 1508 · 1992
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 43 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Inland Empire Public Lands Council v. United States Forest Service (1996), City of Carmel-by-the-Sea v. United States Department of Transportation (1997)
105 federal appellate · 43 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
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Flast v. Cohen
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonably thorough discussion of the significant aspects of the probable environmental consequences.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[I]f the agency action only could be challenged at the site-specific development stage, the underlying programmatic authorization would forever escape review. To the extent that the plan pre-determined the future, it represents a concrete injury that plaintiffs must, at some point, have standing to challenge. That point is now, or it is never.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[B]ecause `NEPA is essentially a procedural statute designed to ensure that environmental issues are given proper consideration in the decisionmaking process,' injury alleged to have occurred as a result of violating this procedural right confers standing.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.