Realty Income Trust v. Eckerd

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “equity should not require the doing of a ‘vain or useless thing’”
• indicating that the first rationale for injunctions is that “a project should not proceed, with its often irreversible effect on the environment, until the possible adverse consequences are known”
• construction of a $25 million federal office building was proposed specific action of known dimensions
• “[A] party is not precluded from asserting cognizable injury to environmental values because his ‘real’ or ‘obvious’ interest may be viewed as monetary”
• erection of new office building alleged to cause loss of rental income and injury to the environment due to impact on vehicular and pedestrian traffic
• “[W]hen an action is being .undertaken in violation of NEPA, there is a presumption that injunc-tive relief should be granted against continuation of the action until the agency brings itself into compliance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

72 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mountain States Legal Foundation v. Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-08-23· cited 224×
• Metcalf v. Daley
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-06-09· cited 177×
• National Ass'n of Home Builders v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
  D.C. Circuit· 2005-07-29· cited 130×
• Warm Springs Dam Task Force v. Lieutenant General William C. Gribble, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-06-23· cited 128×
• Fullerton Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Education
  California Supreme Court· 1982-12-02· cited 125×
• State of Alaska v. Cecil D. Andrus
  D.C. Circuit· 1978-04-24· cited 101×
• State of Wisconsin, and County of Marquette, Michigan, Intervening v. Caspar W. Weinberger, Individually and as Secretary of the Department of Defense
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-08-21· cited 83×
• In Re: Aiken County
  D.C. Circuit· 2013-08-13· cited 79×
• Carlos Romero-Barcelo, Etc. v. Harold Brown
  First Circuit· 1981-01-26· cited 72×
• The Sierra Club v. Stanley K. Hathaway
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-08-11· cited 66×
• Izaak Walton League of America v. Marsh
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-04-24· cited 63×
• National Wildlife Federation v. The United States of America
  D.C. Circuit· 1980-02-11· cited 58×
• Cuomo v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 1985-09-17· cited 58×
• Port of Astoria v. Hodel
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-03-05· cited 58×
• State of North Carolina Roanoke River Basin Association v. City of Virginia Beach
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-02-12· cited 53×
• South East Lake View Neighbors v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Sheldon Baskin, Intervening
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-07-28· cited 52×
• Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Bergland
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-06-13· cited 52×
• Port Of Astoria, Oregon v. Hodel
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-05-07· cited 43×
• Sierra Club v. Brock Adams, Jr., Secretary of Transportation of the U.S., and William M. Cox, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration
  D.C. Circuit· 1978-03-14· cited 42×
• National Wildlife Federation v. Appalachian Regional Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-03-19· cited 42×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kleppe v. Sierra Club
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-28· cited 1,141×
• Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Rogers C. B. Morton, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Department of Interior
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-01-13· cited 433×
• Unnamed case
  D.C. Circuit· 1971-07-23· cited 303×
• Scientists' Institute for Public Information, Inc. v. Atomic Energy Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-06-12· cited 292×
• Denis Hanly v. John M. Mitchell, as Attorney General of the United States
  Second Circuit· 1972-05-17· cited 156×
• Maryland - National Capital Park and Planning Commission a Public Body Corporate v. U. S. Postal Service
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-08-23· cited 154×
• Environmental Defense Fund v. Tennessee Valley Authority
  Sixth Circuit· 1972-12-13· cited 147×
• The Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. v. Glenn T. Seaborg
  D.C. Circuit· 1971-11-02· cited 134×
• Bruce M. And Dorothy v. Cady v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Department of Interior
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-06-19· cited 108×
• Benjamin Jones v. James T. Lynn
  First Circuit· 1973-03-22· cited 81×
• Concerned About Trident v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Individually and as Secretary of the Department of Defense (Two Cases)
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-07-13· cited 80×
• Dick Jones v. District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency (Three Cases)
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-04-26· cited 78×
• City of New York v. United States
  E.D. New York· 1972-01-20· cited 72×
• Carolina Environmental Study Group v. The United States of America and the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Duke Power Company, Intervenor
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-01-21· cited 67×
• Duke City Lumber Company v. Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-07-06· cited 43×
• Duke City Lumber Co. v. Butz
  District of Columbia· 1974-08-28· cited 32×
• Hanly v. Kleindienst
  Supreme Court· 1972-11-06· cited 24×
• Sierra Club v. Morton
  District of Columbia· 1975-06-06· cited 10×
• Save Our Sound Fisheries Ass'n v. Callaway
  D. Rhode Island· 1974-03-05· cited 10×