Baker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 224 · 1980
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Columbia Basin Land Protection Ass'n v. Schlesinger (1981), Steamboaters v. Federal Energy Regulatory, Commission (1985)
34 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 30 U.S.C. § 22 · 30 U.S.C. § 23 · 30 U.S.C. § 35 · 30 U.S.C. § 601 · 30 U.S.C. § 611 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Udall v. Tallman · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · National Labor Relations Board v. Brown · Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Federal Maritime Commission
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot merely substitute [its] judgment for that of the IBLA.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Klump v. United States · Joe B. Fallini, Jr. Susan L. Fallini Helen L. Fallini v. Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, Robert Buford, Director of the Bureau of Land Management Edward F. Spang, Nevada State Director, Bureau of Land Management, Joe B. Fallini, Jr. Susan L. Fallini Helen L. Fallini v. Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, Robert Buford, Director of the Bureau of Land Management Edward F. Spang, Nevada State Director, Bureau of Land Management, and Animal Protection Institute, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant“the courts do not merely 'stand aside and rubber-stamp their affirmance of administrative decisions that they deem inconsistent with a statutory mandate or that frustrate the congressional policy underlying a statute.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nor will the courts 'defer to an administrative construction where there are compelling indications that it is wrong.'”
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.