United States v. Shimer’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
517 federal appellate · 141 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,382 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987)
517 federal appellate · 141 district · 84 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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
reviewedUnited States v. Shimer (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 1801 · 38 U.S.C. § 1816
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Broadcasting Co. v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc.
Cited together with Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Udall v. Tallman · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca
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 1,382 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [h]is choice represents a reasonable accommodation of conflicting policies that were committed to the agency's care by the statute, we should not disturb it unless it appears from the statute or its legislative history that the accommodation is not one that Congress would have sanctioned.”
74 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a full understanding of the force of the statutory policy ... depend [s] upon more than ordinary knowledge' " of the situation, the administering agency's construction is to be accorded "controlling weight unless ... arbitrary, capricious, or manifestly contrary to the statute.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * More than a half-century ago this Court declared that “where Congress has committed to the head of a department certain duties requiring the exercise of judgment and discretion, his action thereon, whether it involve questions of law or fact, will not be reviewed by the courts, unless he has exceeded his authority or this court should be of opinion that his action was clearly wrong.” * * *”
5 later decisions 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.