Dole v. United Steelworkers’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
292 federal appellate · 74 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 715 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Gregory v. Ashcroft (1991), United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc. (1993)
292 federal appellate · 74 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedUnited Steelworkers v. Pendergrass (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1261 (Child Protection Act of 1966) · 15 U.S.C. § 2051 (Consumer Product Safety Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 301 (Animal Drug Amendments of 1968) · 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 44 U.S.C. § 3501 (Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002) · 44 U.S.C. § 3502 · 44 U.S.C. § 3504 (Government Paperwork Elimination Act)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor
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 715 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to try to determine congressional intent.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information that is subject to [the PRA] if— (1) the collection of information does not display a valid control number assigned by the Director [of the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) ] in accordance with this subchapter; or (2) the agency fails to inform the person who is to respond to the collection of information that such person is not required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays a valid control number. (b) The protection provided by this section may be raised in the form of a complete defense, bar, or otherwise at any time during the agency administrative process or judicial action applicable thereto.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“include tax forms, medicare forms, financial loan applications, job applications, questionnaires, compliance reports and tax or business records.”
5 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.