City & County of San Francisco v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.3d 873 · 1997
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Sigman v. United States (2000), United States of America v. Ramon Velarde-Gomez (2000)
5 federal appellate · 22 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 460B · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Golden v. Zwickler · M. Steinthal & Co. v. Seamans · Occidental Engineering Company v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · CACI Field Services, Inc. v. United States · Sierra Club v. Babbitt
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ummary judgment is an appropriate mechanism for deciding the legal question of whether the agency could reasonably have found the facts as it did.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he function of the district court is to determine whether or not as a matter of law the evidence in the administrative record permitted the agency to make the decision it did.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'findings[ ] and conclusions [are] found to be ... arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law,' 'in excess of statutory jurisdiction' or 'without observance of procedure required by law.”
5 later decisions 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.