Seattle Audubon Society v. Espy’s Empirical Analysis
998 F.2d 699 · 1993
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably The Lands Council v. McNair (2008), City of Carmel-by-the-Sea v. United States Department of Transportation (1997)
59 federal appellate · 11 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Massachusetts v. Mellon · California v. Block
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Espy, 998 F.2d at 703. The opinion states: 14 In Lane County Audubon Soc'y v. Jamison, 958 F.2d 290 (9th Cir.1992), we expressly recognized that individual timber sales are driven by an underlying owl-management plan, and in Idaho Conservation League, we held that plaintiffs need not wait to challenge a specific project when their grievance is with an overall plan. 956 F.2d at 1519. 15 Id. at 703. See also Babbitt, 998 F.2d at 708 (”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contains a 'reasonably thorough discussion of the significant aspects of the probable environmental consequences.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“why such an undertaking is not necessary or feasible.”
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.