Barry v. O'Connell’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably Winters v. Lavine (1978), 59 Cal. 2d 270 - California Motor Transport Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (1963)
3 federal appellate · 96 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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Matter of Elite Dairy Products v. Ten Eyck · Matter of Picone v. Comr. of Licenses · New York Water Service Corp. v. Water Power & Control Commission · Matter of Collins v. Behan
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] reviewing court, in dealing with the determination... which an administrative agency alone is authorized to make, must judge the propriety of such action solely by the grounds invoked by the agency. If those grounds are inadequate or improper, the court is powerless to affirm the administrative action by substituting what it considers to be a more adequate or proper basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"If the administrative action is to be tested by the basis upon which it purports to rest, that basis must be set forth with such clarity as to be understandable. It will not do for a court to be compelled to guess at the theory underlying the agency's action; nor can a court be expected to chisel that which must be precise from what the agency has left vague and indecisive."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.