Fort Stewart Schools v. Federal Labor Relations Authority’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
199 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 418 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams (2001)
199 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 state decisions
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
reviewedFort Stewart Schools v. Federal Labor Relations Authority (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc · Service v. Dulles · Vitarelli v. Seaton
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 418 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specifically provided for by Federal statute.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a familiar rule of administrative law that an agency must abide by its own regulations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is elementary that if an agency's decision is to be sustained in the courts on any rationale under which the agency's factual or legal determinations are entitled to deference, it must be upheld on the rationale set forth by the agency itself.”
3 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.