Noel v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 1023 · 1975
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Francis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1976), American Mining Congress v. Mine Safety & Health Administration (1993)
60 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 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 Stanley v. Illinois · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Bolling v. Sharpe · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Graham v. Richardson
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the distinction between a rule as defined in section 551(4), which must be published, and a 'general statement of policy,' which is not defined in the Act, is enshrouded in considerable smog . . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[o]ne of the values of the policy statement [is] the education of agency members in the agency's work,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vidal v. Nielsen · Jean v. Nelson“change [ ] the existing right of the [aliens] to have their applications for extensions of time to depart authorized in the sole discretion of the district director,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vidal v. Nielsen · Jean v. Nelson
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.