Vidal v. Nielsen’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 601 (Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996) · 5 U.S.C. § 603 · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]iability for discrimination will lie when a biased individual manipulates a non-biased decision-maker into taking discriminatory action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he specific sequence of events leading up to the challenged decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f, as Plaintiffs allege, President Trump himself directed the end of the DACA program, it would be surprising if his 'discriminatory intent [could] effectively be laundered by being implemented by an agency under his control'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.