Lugo v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2004
8 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 291 · 42 U.S.C. § 291C
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Udall v. Tallman · United States v. Philadelphia National Bank · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. South Texas Lumber Co · Cree v. Goldstein
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the variance is so clear that it is manifest that the court has no choice except to hold that the administrator has exceeded his authority and employed means that are not appropriate to the end specified in the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the facility or portion thereof to be constructed or modernized will be made available to all persons residing in the territorial area of the applicant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the facility or portion thereof constructed.”
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.