327 F. Supp. 1244 - Thomas v. County Office Committee of Cameron County’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2019
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 7 U.S.C. § 1344 · 7 U.S.C. § 1344B · 7 U.S.C. § 1363 · 7 U.S.C. § 1365 · 7 U.S.C. § 1366 · 7 U.S.C. § 1375
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · United States v. Morton Salt Co. · Scalza 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134 , 140 ... (1944), the Supreme Court discussed the value of agency pronouncements which did not have the dignity of official regulations of the agency. There the Court states: We consider the rulings, interpretations, and opinions of the Administrator under this Act, while not controlling upon the courts by reasons of their authority, do constitute a body of experience and informed judgment to which courts and litigants may properly resort for guidance. The weight of such judgments in a particular case will depend upon the thoroughness evident in its consideration, the validity of its reasoning, its consistency with earlier and later pronouncements, and all those factors which give it power to persuade if lacking power to control.””
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.