United States v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
328 federal appellate · 96 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 918 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), United States v. Mead Corp. (2001)
328 federal appellate · 96 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Federal Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Fuentes v. Shevin · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Shaffer v. Heitner · Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee
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 918 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not ... construe statutory phrases in isolation; we read statutes as a whole.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[L]egislative regulations are given controlling weight unless they are arbitrary, capricious, or manifestly contrary to the statute.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Subject-matter jurisdiction defines the court's authority to hear a given type of case....”
8 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.