United States of America and Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America v. Jack A. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 477 · 1969
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably City of Highland Park v. Train (1975), Independence Mining Co. v. Babbitt (1997)
33 federal appellate · 12 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 Best v. Humboldt Placer Mining Co. · Prairie Band of the Pottawatomie Tribe of Indians v. Udall · Ferry v. Udall · Webster Groves Trust Co. v. Saxon · Adams v. Witmer
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any action in the nature of mandamus to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“agency action is committed to agency discretion by law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“statutes. With a mandatory type statute, administrative discretion is limited to deciding whether the statutory requirements have been met; if they are met, the Secretary must take certain action. With a permissive type statute, even where an applicant meets all of the statutory requirements, the Secretary still has discretion to refuse to act. Discretionary action under a permissive type statute is exempted from judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act. 3 7 The Taylor Grazing Act gives the Secretary of the Interior broad powers to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mollohan v. Gray
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.