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← 160 USAPPDC 266 - O'Donnell v. Shaffer

O'Donnell v. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
February 1979
most recently cited

9 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Richardson v. Perales · United States v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. · Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Ruckelshaus · International Harvester Co. v. Ruckelshaus

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(t)he goal is rather to insure that administrators provide a 'framework for principled decision-making' a framework that is appropriate for the issue at hand.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “basic considerations of fairness may dictate procedural requirements not specified by Congress . . . ,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the presence of technical issues in and of itself (does not) create a need for cross-examination.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.