Joe Hayes v. Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of the Interior’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.2d 319 · 1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1974
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · De Sylva v. Ballentine
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * We think it plain that, if Congress had meant that the decisions in Section 2 should be final and conclusive, it would have said so; in the immediately preceding paragraph it had so provided when it meant to do so. The mere fact that the acts of the Secretary in providing regulations for the execution of these wills and in approving them, required the exercise of discretion and judgment on his part, does not preclude judicial review of his action. To be sure, if upon such review it appears that his action was within the scope of the authority conferred upon him, the court cannot disturb his decision. But that is a different rule from the rule of total nonreviewability. The Administrative Procedure Act (Section 10) forbids judicial review only where statutes ‘preclude’ such review or where agency action is ‘by law committed to agency discretion.’ No statute ‘precludes’ this review, and the Secretary would have us stretch the second prohibitory clause far beyond its meaning. * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Since- the Secretary’s decision that the son survived the father was an essential part of the Secretary’s ‘final and conclusive’ ascertainment of the son’s legal heirs, it was a final and conclusive decision. It determined who took the son’s property and also who took the father’s property. We think it was final and conclusive for both these purposes. Even if it were reviewable and in our opinion erroneous, we could not disturb it, for it was not arbitrary or unreasonable. ‘The judicial function is exhausted when there is found to be a rational basis for the conclusions approved by the administrative body.’ Rochester Telephone Corp. v. United States, 1939, 307 U.S. 125, 146 , 59 S.Ct. 754 , 83 L.Ed. 1147 .” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Attocknie v. Udall
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.