Mausolf v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 661 · 1997
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Mova Pharmaceutical Corp. v. Shalala (1998), Arizona Cattle Growers' Associatio v. United States Fish and Wildlife Bureau of Land Management
22 federal appellate · 6 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Udall v. Tallman · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An administrative agency enjoys broad discretion in carrying out the mandates of its governing statutes and we will set aside an agency's action only upon a showing that the action is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether an agency's action is arbitrary and capricious depends on whether 'the agency has ... offered an explanation for its decision that runs counter to the evidence before the agency, or is so implausible that it could not be ascribed to a difference in view or the product of agency expertise.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Regulations promulgated by an agency [are to be] upheld if they are `reasonably related to the purposes of the enabling legislation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.