Peter J. Brennan v. Occupational Safety And Health Commission’s Empirical Analysis
513 F.2d 553 · 1975
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 1990 · most notably Sierra Club v. Hodel (1988), Watts v. Hadden (1981)
31 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Patrick v. Field Research Corp. Et Al. · Brennan v. Southern Contractors Service · Peter J. Brennan, Secretary of Labor v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and Santa Fe Trail Transport Company · United States v. Dye Construction Co. · Rea Express, Inc. v. Brennan
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the interpretation given a statute by the administrative agency charged with the enforcement should be accepted by the courts, if such interpretation be a reasonable one. And this is true even though there may be another interpretation of the statute which is itself equally reasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the citation shall fix a reasonable time for the abatement of the violation.”
1 later decision 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.