Anderson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 921 · 1974
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2013
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 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 41 U.S.C. § 35 · 5 U.S.C. § 5544 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Armour & Co. v. Wantock · Walling US v. Helmerich & Payne
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * In statutory construction, unless tbe language is compelling, as it signally here is not, it is well to avoid interpretations no one can believe tbe Congress could have intended.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.