Ashton v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2007
1 federal appellate · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1437C · 42 U.S.C. § 4822 · 42 U.S.C. § 4831 · 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Sloan · CBS, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to lead paint only when the paint is in a defective condition. Our reading of the legislative history convinces us that Congress understood a broader range of conditions to constitute exposure of children to lead paint and intended that these conditions be eliminated. Although we are not as certain of the import of the legislative history as was the district court, we agree that the change in the pertinent language of section 302 made by the Senate committee is the most revealing indicator of congressional intent. The elimination of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ashton v. Pierce“Similarly, our interpretation is not defeated by the numerous references to the hazards of defective paint made by members of both Houses, even after the Senate committee's revision of section 302. See Brief for Appellants at 29 & n. 12 (citing Members' remarks). References to one type of hazard do not indicate a lack of concern about other types of hazards. Indeed, immediately after remarking on S. 3080's provisions for eliminating lead paint from furniture and toys, Senator Schweiker noted that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ashton v. Pierce“its usual and ordinary meaning would adequately answer the question of what lead-based paint Congress intended the Department to eliminate and would exhaust our inquiry. See Symons v. Chrysler Corp. Loan Guarantee Board, 670 F.2d 238 , 241 (D.C.Cir.1981); see also United States v. Lipscomb, 702 F.2d 1049 at 1073-76 (D.C.Cir.1983) (MacKinnon, J., concurring specially). Given the broad ordinary meaning of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ashton v. Pierce
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.