Sellas v. Kirk’s Empirical Analysis
200 F.2d 217 · 1952
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Ness Investment Corp. v. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (1975), Ray Strickland and Sam Lorimer v. Hon. Rogers C. B. Morton (1975)
17 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
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 43 U.S.C. § 315 · 43 U.S.C. § 315B · 5 U.S.C. § 1009
Relies on Williams v. Fanning · 101 F. Supp. 237 - Sellas v. Kirk
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Agency action is left unreviewable to the extent that statutes preclude review or to the extent that agency action is by law committed to agency discretion. Since these two reasons are the only reasons why agency action could be unreviewable before the APA was enacted, the law of reviewability remains unchanged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * that the superior officer is an indispensable party if the decree granting the relief sought will require him to take action, either by exercising directly a power lodged in him or by having a subordinate exercise it for him.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in order better to achieve an administration consistent with the purposes of the act * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNeil v. Seaton
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.