American Dairy of Evansville, Inc. v. Bergland’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 1252 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Dewey Electronics Corp. v. United States (1986), Gulf Oil Corporation v. United States Department of Energy (1981)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 634 · 28 U.S.C. § 1254 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 292 · 29 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 10 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 42 U.S.C. § 1395O (§ 1836 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Weinberger v. Salfi · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In almost a decade this administrative agency has failed to produce a decision sustainable on an adequate record. While recognizing that the ultimate answer on the merits of milk pricing rests with the Secretary, the aggregate record of this decade long administrative morass is equivalent to administrative action unlawfully withheld. The courts have power to compel administrative action in such circumstances; [see 5 U.S.C. § 706 (1)] by granting the private parties here the relief they have sought for years, although on an interim basis, we expect proper and prompt administrative action on a sound record to result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the relevant considerations ... are whether the process of administrative decisionmaking has reached a stage where judicial review will not disrupt the orderly process of adjudication and whether rights or obligations have been determined or legal consequences will flow from the agency action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“they are not ripe for review and the district court was without jurisdiction to entertain this suit. 79 But, although finality is a weighty factor in judging ripeness, it is not an indispensible one. 47 In determining whether an order is sufficiently final for purposes of judicial review,”
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.