Arnold v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 1101 · 1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Kamheangpatiyooth v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1979), Consolidated Gas Supply Corporation v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Intervenor (1979)
7 federal appellate · 8 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 Udall v. Tallman · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · National Labor Relations Board v. Wyman-Gordon Co. · De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson · Fairbank v. United States
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All lands subject to disposition under this chapter which are known or believed to contain oil or gas deposits may be leased by the Secretary [of the Interior].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subjectively certain” test is only applicable under federal law, where the court of appeals may only uphold an agency decision on the same grounds as set forth by the agency in support of that decision. The test could not apply here, where appellants are asking this court to apply the “subjectively certain”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warner v. State“does not raise [their] hope or expectation of a lease to a vested right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDonald v. Clark
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.