Kisor v. Wilkie’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 342 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024), 140 S. Ct. 1891 - Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of Univ. of Cal. (2020)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 16 (§ 5 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Udall v. Tallman · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same
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 342 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the 'traditional tools' of construction,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“' meaning that it 'must come within the zone of ambiguity the court has identified after employing all its interpretive tools.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“First and foremost, a court should not afford Auer deference unless the regulation is genuinely ambiguous.”
5 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.