Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Lujan’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 886 · 1992
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Salmon River Concerned Citizens v. Robertson (1994), Kickapoo Tribe of Indians v. Babbitt (1995)
43 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“site-specific impacts need not be fully evaluated until a critical decision has been made to act on site development.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably thorough discussion of the significant aspects of the probable environmental consequences.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient detail to foster informed decision-making,”
2 later decisions 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.