Modification
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 549 U.S. 561 - Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corporation · 2007Most cited · 309 citing opinions
any physical change in, or change in the method of operation of, an existing facility which increases the amount of any air pollutant (to which a standard applies) emitted into the atmosphere by that facility," § 60.2(h); see also New York v. EPA, 413 F. 3d 3,11-12 (CADC 2005) (per curiam) ("[N]either the 1975 regulation nor its preamble explained why EPA found it necessary to offer these two separate glosses on 'modification' ").
How often courts cite the case defining “Modification”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Modification” — 309 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case 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.