Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1,531 federal appellate · 752 district · 154 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,290 later decisions (185 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992)
1,531 federal appellate · 752 district · 154 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
reviewedHill v. Tennessee Valley Authority (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · William Marbury v. James Madison · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Sorrells v. United States
Cited together with Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Morton v. Mancari · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Bennett v. Spear
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 4,290 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species ever enacted by any nation.”
143 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our Constitution vests such responsibilities in the political branches.”
88 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the claimed repeal rests solely on an Appropriations Act.”
25 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.