Ray Strickland and Sam Lorimer v. Hon. Rogers C. B. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
519 F.2d 467 · 1975
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Wallace v. Christensen (1986), City of Santa Clara v. Andrus (1978)
41 federal appellate · 14 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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Panama Canal Company v. Grace Line Grace Line · Work v. United States Rives · United States v. George S. Bush & Co. · Ness Investment Corp. v. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in a given case' there is no law to be applied.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where consideration of the language, purpose and history of a statute indicate that action taken thereunder has been committed to agency discretion: (1) a federal court has jurisdiction to review agency action for abuse of discretion when the alleged abuse of discretion involves violation by the agency of constitutional, statutory, regulatory or other legal mandates or restrictions; (2) but a federal court does not have jurisdiction to review agency action for abuse of discretion when the alleged abuse of discretion consists only of the making informed judgment by the agency.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'is not whether a statute viewed in the abstract lacks law to be applied, but rather, whether 'in a given case' there is no law to be applied.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.