Federal Employees v. Department of Interior’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Hoxhallari v. Gonzales (2006)
49 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States Department of the Interior v. Federal Labor Relations Authority (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 5 U.S.C. § 7101 · 5 U.S.C. § 7103 · 5 U.S.C. § 7105 · 5 U.S.C. § 7106 · 5 U.S.C. § 7114 · 5 U.S.C. § 7131
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · United States v. Nordic Village, Inc. · Federal Election Commission v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'special function of applying the general provisions of the [Statute] to the complexities' of federal labor relations,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Authority should have the opportunity to consider these questions aware that the [Act] permits, but does not compel, the conclusions it reached.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, National Federation of Federal Employees Local 1309, Intervenor. Federal Labor Relations Authority, National Federation of Federal Employees Local 1309, Intervenor v. United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia · United States Department of the Interior Washington Dc v. Federal Labor Relations Authority“grants federal agency employees the right to organize, provides for collective bargaining, and defines various unfair labor practices. §§ 7114(a)(1), 7116. It creates the FLRA, which is responsible for administering the statute through the exercise of broad adjudicatory, policymaking and rulemaking powers. §§ 7104, 7105.”
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.