McKenna v. Seaton’s Empirical Analysis
259 F.2d 780 · 1958
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1998 · most notably American Farm Lines v. Black Ball Freight Service (1970), Pan American Petroleum Corp. v. Pierson (1960)
20 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Relies on United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Service v. Dulles · Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. United States · Chapman v. Sheridan-Wyoming Coal Co. · Franklin Lane v. Svan Hoglund
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.
“a fair common denominator * * * of the conditions which will cause judicial repudiation of administrative action by the Secretary, is at least that he is plainly wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the obvious purpose of aiding the Government in reaching a correct decision”
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.