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← 243 VA 320 - Rates v. Electric

Rates v. Electric’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2006
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Service v. Dulles · Scott v. Heckler · Union of Concerned Scientists v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission · Black Wc Jj v. Interstate Commerce 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`For once an agency exercises its discretion and creates the procedural rules under which it desires to have its actions judged, it denies itself the right to violate these rules. If an agency in its proceedings violates its rules and prejudice results, any action taken as a result of the proceedings cannot stand.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Furthermore, it is an elementary principle of administrative law that agencies must follow their properly promulgated rules.”
    1 later decision 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.