Port of Portland v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2000 · most notably McGill v. Board of Education of Pekin Elementary School District No of Tazewell County Illinois (1979), Doe v. Pringle (1976)
18 federal appellate · 3 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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · McLean Trucking Co. v. United States · United States v. ICC · United States 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not the role of this Court to arrive at its own determination of the public interest on the facts of this case. Our appellate function in administrative cases is limited to considering whether the announced grounds for the agency decision comport with the applicable legal principles. SEC v. Chenery Corp., [ 318 U.S. 80, 87-88 , 63 S.Ct. 454, 459-460 , 87 L.Ed. 626 ] . . .”
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.