In Re Carter’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district · 67 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mayflower Securities Co. v. Bureau of Securities · Campbell v. Department of Civil Service · Henry v. Rahway State Prison · In Re the Revocation of the License of Polk · State v. One 1990 Honda Accord
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the agency's action violates express or implied legislative policies, that is, did the agency follow the law; (2) whether the record contains substantial evidence to support the findings on which the agency based its action; and (3) whether in applying the legislative policies to the facts, the agency clearly erred in reaching a conclusion that could not reasonably have been made on a showing of the relevant factors.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an agency's decision meets those criteria, then a court owes substantial deference to the agency's expertise and superior knowledge of a particular field. Deference controls even if the court would have reached a different result in the first instance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'bound by an agency's interpretation of a statute or its determination of a strictly legal issue,' particularly when 'that interpretation is inaccurate * or contrary to legislative objectives.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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