Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 977 · 1976
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 28 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Wisconsin Gas Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1985), Federal Trade Commission v. Texaco, Inc. Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil Company. Federal Trade Commission v. The Superior Oil Company, Inc., a Corporation. Federal Trade Commission v. Exxon Corporation, a Corporation. Federal Trade Commission v. Shell Oil Company, a Corporation. Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil Company of California, a Corporation. Federal Trade Commission v. Mobil Oil Corporation, a Corporation (1977)
29 federal appellate · 28 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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Orloff v. Willoughby · Investment Company Institute v. Camp · McLean Trucking Co. 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(f) To make public from time to time such portions of the information obtained by it hereunder, except trade secrets and names of customers, as it shall deem expedient in the public interest; and to make annual and special reports to the Congress and to submit therewith recommendations for additional legislation; and to provide for the publication of its reports and decisions in such form and manner as may be best adapted for public information and use.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even if government counsel had attempted to disavow the basis on which the FTC acted — and it is clear from the foregoing that he did not — his statements could not bind the court to ignore the rationale on which the FTC’s decision was actually based. No principle of administrative law is more firmly established than that a court must review discretionary actions in terms of the rationale on which the agency acted, rather than “accept appellate counsel’s post hoc rationalizations,” Burlington Truck Lines v. United States, 371 U.S. 156, 169 , 83 S.Ct. 239, 246 , 9 L.Ed.2d 207 (1962).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(e)ach standing committee . . . including any subcommittee of any such committee . . . to require by subpoena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such . . . documents (etc.) . . . as it deems advisable.”
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.