Macktal v. Chao’s Empirical Analysis
286 F.3d 822 · 2002
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2025
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Civil Aeronautics Board v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Albertson v. Federal Communications Commission · Bookman v. United States · Southern Travel Club, Inc. v. Carnival Air Lines, Inc. · Bookman v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agency may not reconsider its own decision if to do so would be arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of discretion.”
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.