Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
742 federal appellate · 269 district · 333 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,709 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr (2001)
742 federal appellate · 269 district · 333 state decisions — followed in 37 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1905 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 7 U.S.C. § 136 (Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972) · 7 U.S.C. § 136A · 7 U.S.C. § 136H
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Morton v. Mancari
Cited together with Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. · Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
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 2,709 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an individual discloses his trade secret to others who are under no obligation to protect the confidentiality of the information, or otherwise publicly discloses the secret, his property right is extinguished.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the character of the governmental action, its economic impact, and its interference with reasonable investment-backed expectations.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of co-existence, it is the duty of the courts, absent a clearly expressed congressional intention to the contrary, to regard each as effective”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.