Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
706 federal appellate · 273 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,833 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City (1985), Whitman Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency v. American Trucking Associations Inc (2001)
706 federal appellate · 273 district · 39 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedStandard Oil Co. v. Federal Trade Commission (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 554 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 557 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Weinberger v. Salfi · McKart v. United States
Cited together with Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Bennett v. Spear · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Califano v. Sanders · Toilet Goods Association v. Wga Rdner
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 1,833 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“piecemeal review which at the least is inefficient and upon completion of the agency process might prove to have been unnecessary.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a threshold determination that further inquiry is warranted.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct and immediate ... effect on the day-to-day business”
14 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.