Handel v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2024
22 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
Relies on Pruitt Corp. v. Georgia Department of Community Health · Sawnee Electric Membership Corp. v. Georgia Public Service Commission · Avery v. Bower · R. D. Brown Contractors, Inc. v. Board of Education · Harbuck v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“independent determination as to whether the interpretation of the administrative agency correctly reflects the plain language of the [administrative rule].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“judicial review of an administrative decision is a two-step process: because the court reviewing an administrative decision must accept the agency's findings of fact if there is any evidence to support the findings, the court must first determine if there is evidence to support the factual findings; the court then is statutorily required to examine the soundness of the conclusions of law drawn from the findings of fact supported by any evidence. 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A statute must be construed to give sensible and intelligent effect to all its provisions and to refrain from any interpretation which renders any part of the statute meaningless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edler v. Hedden.
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.