United States v. Houston H. Feaster, Individually and as Director, Alabama State Docksdepartment’s Empirical Analysis
376 F.2d 147 · 1967
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 1991
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Leedom v. Kyne · Oklahoma Press Pub Co v. Walling US News Printing Co · Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State has, at all stages, objected to the Board's making a determination of carrier status without a hearing. The Board acts more in the capacity of a referee; there is no requirement of a hearing at any stage of the matter. The Board does not enter orders, and its only ultimate finding of fact is the certificate. [cases cited] `[T]he Board's duty to investigate is a duty to make such investigation as the nature of the case requires. An investigation is `essentially informal, not adversary'; it is `not required to take any particular form.' * * * Congress has simply told the Board to investigate and has left to it * * * the methods and procedures which it should employ in each case.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he agency need not make a conclusive showing of jurisdiction to justify enforcement of the subpoena. So long as the agency makes a 'plausible' argument in support of its assertion of jurisdiction, a district court must enforce the subpoena if the information sought there is 'not plainly incompetent or irrelevant to any lawful purpose' of the agency.”
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.