Udall v. Tallman’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3,625 federal appellate · 958 district · 465 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,394 later decisions (250 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971)
3,625 federal appellate · 958 district · 465 state decisions — followed in 31 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
reviewedTallman v. Udall (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 181 (Coal Market Competition Act of 2000) · 30 U.S.C. § 223 · 30 U.S.C. § 226 · 30 U.S.C. § 251 · 43 U.S.C. § 141
Relies on Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Aragon · Power Reactor Development Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers · Gray v. Powell
Cited together with Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Power Reactor Development Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe
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 8,394 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“great deference to the interpretation given the statute by the officers or agency charged with its administration.”
340 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Secretary's interpretation may not be the only one permitted by the language of the orders, but it is quite clearly a reasonable interpretation; courts must therefore respect it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had, long prior to respondents' applications, been a matter of public record and discussion.”
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.