Bronken v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.2d 790 · 1973
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 43 U.S.C. § 271 · 43 U.S.C. § 315F · 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Panama Canal Company v. Grace Line Grace Line · McLaren v. Fleischer · Webster v. Luther · Ferry v. Udall
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is true, as the district court observed, that the Secretary’s discretion in classifying public lands is quite broad, it is equally true that this discretion is not absolute. His decisions are beyond judicial scrutiny only when he possesses discretion, and he acts within the limits Congress has placed on this discretion.” 473 F.2d at 794 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that monetary value of the selected lands”
1 later decision 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.