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573 U.S. 302 · 2014

Citation profile

170
cited by 170 later decisions
14
cited 14 times by the Supreme Court
6
states following
June 2026
most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 7410 · 42 U.S.C. § 7602 · 42 U.S.C. § 7607

Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. · Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. · Morton v. Ruiz

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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “core administrative-law principle that an agency may not rewrite clear statutory terms to suit its own sense of how the statute should operate.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Even under Chevron 's deferential framework, agencies must operate within the bounds of reasonable interpretation. ... A statutory provision that may seem ambiguous in isolation is often clarified by the remainder of the statutory scheme because only one of the permissible meanings produces a substantive effect that is compatible with the rest of the law.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “The power of executing the laws ... does not include a power to revise clear statutory terms that turn out not to work in practice,”
    2 later decisions 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.