BankAmerica Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 15 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club (1983), Arizona v. San Carlos Apache Tribe of Ariz. (1983)
60 federal appellate · 15 district · 13 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
reviewedUnited States v. Crocker National Corp. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 19 (§ 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Morton v. Ruiz · General Electric Co. v. Gilbert · United States v. Philadelphia National Bank · Mohasco Corp. v. Silver · United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Authority actually granted by Congress of course cannot evaporate through lack of administrative exercise. But just as established practice may shed light on the extent of power conveyed by general statutory language, so the want of assertion of power by those who presumably would be alert to exercise it, is equally significant in determining whether such power was actually conferred.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“long-held policy of giving great weight to the contemporaneous interpretation of a challenged statute by an agency charged with its enforcement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]uthority actually granted by Congress ... cannot evaporate through lack of administrative exercise.”
2 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.