Statute treatment: 42 U.S.C. § 2021

Ranked leading cases interpreting this statute, drawn from 339 citation events across 126 distinct cases.

339citations total

126distinct interpreting cases

57distinct courts

23citations in last 5y

1965–2025year range

Top 20 leading cases

#1 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission (1983) scotus 1,371 own cites 12× in case

#2 Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp. (1984) scotus 1,172 own cites 6× in case

#3 English v. General Electric Co. (1990) scotus 1,369 own cites 2× in case

#4 Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone v. Connecticut Siting Council (2008) conn 61 own cites 6× in case

#5 Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. John Warren (2017) ca4 9 own cites 16× in case

#6 Good Fund, Ltd.-1972 v. Church (1982) cod 13 own cites 11× in case

#7 cluster 403615 (1982) ca7 26 own cites 7× in case

#8 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1978) scotus 2,316 own cites 1× in case

#9 Bennett v. Mallinckrodt, Inc. (1985) moctapp 45 own cites 4× in case

#10 United Nuclear Corp. v. Cannon (1982) rid 42 own cites 4× in case

#11 Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC v. Shumlin (2013) ca2 38 own cites 4× in case

#12 Wyatt v. Kundert (1985) sd 34 own cites 4× in case

#13 California Radioactive Materials Management Forum v. Department of Health Services (1993) calctapp 27 own cites 4× in case

#14 Northern States Power Company v. The State of Minnesota, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (1971) ca8 110 own cites 2× in case

#15 Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2010) cadc 8 own cites 8× in case

#16 United States v. City of New York (1978) nysd 9 own cites 7× in case

#17 The Boeing Company v. Maziar Movassaghi (2014) ca9 31 own cites 3× in case

#18 Train v. Colorado Public Interest Research Group, Inc. (1976) scotus 372 own cites 1× in case

#19 County of Suffolk v. Long Island Lighting Co. (1984) ca2 55 own cites 6× in case

#20 Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians v. Nielson Ex Rel. Utah Department of Environmental Quality (2004) ca10 64 own cites 2× in case

Ranking method: leading_score = ln(1 + own_citation_count) × √(mentions_in_case) × flag_factor, where flag_factor = 1.0 green · 0.6 unknown · 0.5 neutral · 0.4 yellow · 0.3 procedural · 0 red. Red-flagged cases excluded — their interpretation has been undermined and shouldn't lead the list. Top 20 returned per statute. Open any case for full G Cite, trajectory, and per-circuit treatment.