People v. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Marathon Oil Company v. United States Cook Inlet Region Inc (1986), Marks v. United States (1978)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Rivera v. United States · Northern Indiana Public Service Co. v. Porter County Chapter of Izaak Walton League of America, Inc. · Lathan v. Brinegar
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conclusory allegations, unsupported by factual data, do not create a triable issue of fact.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since this involves an interpretation of an administrative regulation a court must necessarily look to the administrative construction of the regulation if the meaning of the words used is in doubt____ [T]he ultimate criterion is the administrative interpretation, which becomes of controlling weight unless it is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation.”
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.