Public Citizen, and MacHinery Dealers National Association v. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 708 · 1977
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 16 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Randolph-Sheppard Vendors of America v. Weinberger (1986), National Wildlife Federation v. Hodel (1988)
60 federal appellate · 16 district · 4 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 Warth v. Seldin · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Sierra Club v. Morton
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To show aggrievement, a plaintiff must allege facts sufficient to prove the existence of a `concrete, perceptible harm of a real, non-speculative nature.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'[w]e are concerned here not with the length of the chain of causation, but [with] the plausibility of the links that comprise the chain.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“may not rely on 'the remote possibility, unsubstantiated by allegations of fact, that his situation might have been better had respondents acted otherwise, and might improve were the court to afford relief.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.