Robinson v. Dow’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 855 · 1975
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably City of Rochester v. Bond (1979), Citizens for Mount Vernon v. Mount Vernon (1997)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Far East Conference v. United States · W. E. B. DuBois Clubs of America v. Clark · John J. Oling v. Air Line Pilots Association · Air East, Inc. v. National Transportation Safety Board
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any order, affirmative or negative, issued by the Board or Administrator under this chapter, except any order in respect of any foreign air carrier subject to the approval of the President as provided in section 1461 of this title, shall be subject to review by the courts of appeals of the United States or the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upon petition, filed within sixty days after the entry of such order, by any person disclosing a substantial interest in such order. After the expiration of said sixty days a petition may be filed only by leave of court upon a showing of reasonable grounds for failure to file the petition theretofore.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not axiomatic ... that challenging the constitutionality of a statute on its face as opposed to its application will permit a litigant to bypass the administrative process since under cases such as this '[t]he effect would be that important and difficult constitutional issues would be decided devoid of factual content.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is founded upon the belief that the judiciary should give proper deference to that body possessing expertise in areas outside the conventional experience of judges.”
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.