Paccar, Inc. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Department of Transportation, Truck Equipment & Body Distributors Association v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Department of Transportation, American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Department of Transportation’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.2d 632 · 1978
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Freightliner Corp. v. Myrick (1995), Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Inc v. Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Inc (1984)
18 federal appellate · 3 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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Chrysler Corporation v. Department of Transportation, Jeep Corporation v. Department of Transportation, American Motors Corporation v. Department of Transportation, Ford Motor Company v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Automobile Importers of America v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Successive authorities of [the Administration] might take an entirely different view than that announced by the incumbents, and subjecting the manufacturers to such a risk does not comport with due process requirements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there [was] a strong probability that [ABS] has created a potentially more hazardous highway situation than existed before the Standard became operative,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Manufacturer' means any person engaged in the manufacturing or assembling of motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment....”
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.