Adams v. Nagle’s Empirical Analysis
303 U.S. 532 · 1938
Citation profile
92 federal appellate · 38 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2006 · most notably Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. (1949), Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. (1940)
92 federal appellate · 38 district · 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNagle v. O'Connor (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kennedy v. Gibson · Casey v. Galli · Bushnell v. Leland · United States v. Knox
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If * * * he is to act in the light of the facts he ascertains and the judgment he forms, a court cannot restrain him from acting on the ground that he has exceeded his jurisdiction by reason of an error either of fact or law which induced his conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would be arbitrary, in the proper sense of the term, for an official to act in the teeth of a statute or stubbornly to refuse to act at all where a statute commands action, but where he essays to exercise the jurisdiction conferred upon him, though his errors may be subject to subsequent correction, they cannot be enjoined as an arbitrary exercise of his authority. To hold otherwise would render orderly administrative procedure impossible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]lainly ... for the exercise of administrative 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.