Northwest Environmental Defense Center v. Brennen’s Empirical Analysis
958 F.2d 930 · 1992
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2020
15 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Warth v. Seldin · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Freytag v. Commissioner
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ordinary meaning of the word `promulgate' is `to publish' or `to announce officially'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be expected to begin preparing an attack on them”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whatever constitutional infirmity may inhere in the [governmental body’s] structure has not caused the injury of which [the plaintiff] complains. Nor would a declaration that the Council’s composition violates the Constitution redress that injury.... [The plaintiffs] injury [i.e., the impact of the allegedly defective regulations] cannot be fairly traced to the alleged constitutional infirmities of the Council, and the relief sought on the constitutional claims would not redress that injury.”
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.