M. Steinthal & Co. v. Seamans’s Empirical Analysis
455 F.2d 1289 · 1971
Citation profile
142 federal appellate · 121 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 555 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Impresa Construzioni Geom. Domenico Garufi v. United States (2001), Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Train (1974)
142 federal appellate · 121 district · 5 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 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40
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 555 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the court finds a reasonable basis for the agency’s action, the court should stay its hand even though it might, as an original proposition, have reached a different conclusion as to the proper administration and application of the procurement regulations.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the field of government procurement the courts must be sedulous to heed the admonition that their authority to vacate and enjoin action that is illegal must be exercised with restraint less the courts fall into the error of supposing that they may revise ‘action simply because [they] happen to think it ill-considered, or to represent the less appealing alternative solution available.’”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'in having agencies follow the regulations which control government contracting.'”
7 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.