Sierra Club v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
976 F.2d 763 · 1992
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 31 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Dubois v. United States Department of Agriculture (1996), Utahns for Better Transportation v. United States Department of Transportation (2002)
30 federal appellate · 31 district · 2 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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Camp v. Pitts · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n impact is `reasonably foreseeable' if it is `sufficiently likely to occur that a person of ordinary prudence would take it into account in reaching a decision.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even upon lengthy district court proceedings in which knowledgeable counsel explain the agency's decisionmaking process in detail,”
3 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.