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5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 47 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Citizens Against Burlington, Inc. v. Busey.

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1 Citizens Against Burlington, Inc. v. Busey Anchor
cadc · 1991
green “so long as the alternatives are reasonable and the agency discusses them in reasonable detail.” 19
2 Everett, Frank E. v. United States
cadc · 1998
green “will prevail unless it is 'plainly erroneous or inconsistent' with the plain terms of the disputed regulations.” 11
3 National Treasury Employees Union v. Horner
cadc · 1988
green “task is to determine 'whether the agency's decisionmaking was reasoned,' ... i.e., whether it considered relevant factors and explained the facts and policy concerns on which it relied, and whether those facts have some basis in the record.” 11
4 Corridor H Alternatives, Inc. v. Slater
dcd · 1997
green “cause effects which are significantly different from those already studied.” 3
5 National Trust for Historic Preservation v. Blanck
dcd · 1996
green “section 106 is universally interpreted as requiring agencies to consult and consider and not to engage in any particular preservation activities per se” 3

A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.

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