American Trucking Associations v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 444 · 1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1994
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · United States v. Storer Broadcasting Co. · United States v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · American Trucking Ass'ns v. United States Eastern Motor Exp · Ethyl Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, Ppg Industries, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Company v. Environmental Protection Agency, Nalco Chemical Company v. Environmental Protection Agency, National Petroleum Refiners Association v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be given its plain, obvious and rational meaning”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.