Nader v. Volpe’s Empirical Analysis
475 F.2d 916 · 1973
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Hunt (1979), Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel v. Federal Communications Commission (1999)
31 federal appellate · 7 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 15 U.S.C. § 1381 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 291
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Moore v. Ogilvie · Alton & Southern Railway Co. v. International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers · Brigade v. Chief of Capitol Police
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition, yet evading review”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to dismiss cases challenging the legality of such exemptions [to safety regulations] simply because the exemption had been withdrawn or had expired would prevent courts from ever deciding the important question of whether or not the Secretary has authority to issue such exemptions”
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.