Thomas v. Peterson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that testimony is sufficient to raise substantial questions as to the existence of significant cumulative effects, if it shows that cumulative impacts may be leading to aquatic habitat degradation, undocumented in EAs
• “If anything, the strict substantive provisions of the ESA justify more stringent enforcement of its procedural requirements, because the procedural requirements are designed to ensure compliance with the substantive provisions.”
• Forest Service allowed project proponent to construct a forest road with no other purpose than to aid a logging program before determining whether it could issue logging permits under NEPA
• “It is not the responsibility of the plaintiffs to prove, nor the function of the courts to judge, the effect of a pro- posed action on an endangered species when proper proce- dures have not been followed.”
• discussing the adequacy of piecemeal EIS’s

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Native Ecosystems Council v. Dombeck
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-09-16· cited 185×
• Metcalf v. Daley
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-06-09· cited 177×
• Karuk Tribe v. United States Forest Service
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-06-01· cited 152×
• Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership v. Salazar
  D.C. Circuit· 2010-07-23· cited 141×
• Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. United States Forest Service
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-06-17· cited 120×
• National Wildlife Federation v. National Marine Fisheries Service
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-08-31· cited 115×
• Washington Toxics Coalition v. Environmental Protection Agency
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-06-28· cited 112×
• Great Basin Mine Watch v. Hankins
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-07-31· cited 104×
• Churchill County v. Norton
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-12-19· cited 101×
• Resources Ltd. v. Robertson
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-11-03· cited 46×
• Fund for Animals v. Norton
  District of Columbia· 2003-09-09· cited 45×
• Ramsey v. Kantor
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-09-19· cited 43×
• Natural Resources Defense Council v. Houston
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-06-24· cited 34×
• Newton County Wildlife Ass'n v. United States Forest Service
  Eighth Circuit· 1997-05-06· cited 29×
• Montana Wilderness Ass'n v. Fry
  D. Montana· 2004-03-31· cited 27×
• Lands Council v. Vaught
  E.D. Washington· 2002-03-29· cited 19×
• Greenpeace Foundation v. Mineta
  D. Hawaii· 2000-11-15· cited 19×
• Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center v. Bureau of Land Management
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-10-28· cited 19×
• Committee of 100 on the Federal City v. Foxx
  District of Columbia· 2015-04-07· cited 17×
• Greenpeace v. National Marine Fisheries Service
  W.D. Washington· 2000-07-19· cited 15×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Udall v. Tallman
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-26· cited 3,144×
• Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-15· cited 1,928×
• Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 1,881×
• Kleppe v. Sierra Club
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-28· cited 1,141×
• Andrus v. Sierra Club
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-11· cited 331×
• City of Davis, a Municipal Corporation v. William T. Coleman, Jr., Secretary of Transportation
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-07-30· cited 320×
• California v. Block
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-10-22· cited 309×
• Trout Unlimited v. Morton
  Ninth Circuit· 1974-12-23· cited 183×
• Lathan v. Brinegar
  Ninth Circuit· 1974-09-27· cited 173×
• Thomas v. Peterson
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-02-11· cited 157×
• Roosevelt Lathan and Pearline Lathan, His Wife v. John A. Volpe, as Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation
  Ninth Circuit· 1972-02-08· cited 144×
• City and County of San Francisco, a Municipal Corporation v. United States of America
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-03-14· cited 97×
• Columbia Basin Land Protection Ass'n v. Schlesinger
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-04-20· cited 85×
• Save Our Ecosystems v. Clark
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-01-27· cited 84×
• Village of False Pass, Cross-Appellees v. William C. Clark, Cross-Appellants, Amoco Production Company, Intervenors
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-05-24· cited 75×
• Palila, (Psittirostra Bailleui), an Endangered Species, Plaintiffs v. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-02-09· cited 72×
• George and Mary Daly v. John A. Volpe, as Secretary of Transportation
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-03-20· cited 54×
• Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Coleman
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-05-28· cited 42×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-09-01· cited 35×
• Timber Investors, Inc. v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1978-11-15· cited 27×