Lathan v. Brinegar’s Empirical Analysis
506 F.2d 677 · 1974
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 24 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Aberdeen & Rockfish R. Co. v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) (1975), California v. Block (1982)
137 federal appellate · 24 district · 9 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.
Relationships
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · McNabb v. United States · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Costello v. United States · Gardner v. Panama Railroad
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]rudging, pro forma compliance will not do.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“without observance of procedure required by law.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Columbia Basin Land Protection Association, Etc., and South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. James R. Schlesinger, Etc., Columbia Basin Land Protection Association, Etc., and South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. James R. Schlesinger, Etc., Columbia Basin Land Protection Association, Etc., and South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Plaintiff-Intervenor, and State of Washington and Franklin County, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants v. James Schlesigner, Etc. · Friends of the Earth v. Coleman“significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”
7 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.