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513 F.2d 553 · 1975

Citation profile

44
cited by 44 later decisions
February 1990
most recently cited

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 ·

250197519801990decided

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.

  1. “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
  2. “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.