Marine Space Enclosures, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 577 · 1969
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1983 · most notably Greater Boston Television Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, Whdh, Inc., a Massachusettscorporation, Intervenor. Whdh, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Greater Boston Televisioncorporation, a Massachusetts Corporation, Intervenor. Charles River Civic Television, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Whdh, Inc., Boston Broadcastersinc., Intervenors. Whdh, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Boston Broadcasters, Inc., Intervenor. Greater Boston Tv Co., Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Whdh, Inc., Boston Broadcastersinc., Intervenors (1971), Zuber v. Allen (1970)
84 federal appellate · 1 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 International Salt Co. v. United States · Perma Life Mufflers, Inc. v. International Parts Corp. · Tampa Electric Co. v. Nashville Coal Co. · White Motor Company v. United States · Fortner Enterprises, Inc. v. United States Steel Corp.
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agency may modify or even reverse its past policies * * * but the confidence of a reviewing court that these adjustments are made in accordance with the requirements of law is not enhanced when the prior precedents are not discussed, the swerves and reversals are not identified, and the entire matter is brushed off once over lightly.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he requirement of a hearing in a proceeding before an administrative agency may be satisfied by something less time-consuming than courtroom drama.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This is not to say that the Commission is without power to determine, after appropriate administrative proceedings, that some types or classes of agreements coming within the literal provisions of § 15 are of such a de minimis or routine character as not to require formal filing.”
3 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.