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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 467 U.S. 837 - Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · 1984Most cited · 45,285 citing opinions
—a source must emit at least 100 tons of pollution to qualify but it sheds virtually no light on the meaning of the term "stationary source." It does equate a source with a facility—a "major emitting facility" and a "major stationary source" are synonymous under § 302(j).
How often courts cite the cases defining “major”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “major” — 47,488 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1984–1998
comparative importance'' and "suggest[s] that the touchstone for determining an activity's inclusion under the statutory rubric is its significance.'' 107 F.3d, at 939, 940.