Rice v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
630 F.2d 586 · 1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2012
7 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 7 U.S.C. § 181 (Packers and Stockyards Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 201 · 7 U.S.C. § 208 · 7 U.S.C. § 209 · 7 U.S.C. § 210
Relies on Butz v. Glover Livestock Commission Co. · Stafford v. Wallace · Denver Union Stock Yard Company v. Producers Livestock Marketing Association Benson · Bruhn's Freezer Meats of Chicago, Inc. v. United States Department of Agriculture · Capitol Packing Company, a Corporation, and Meyer Averch v. United States of America, Sol Felsen v. United States of America, and Orville E. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“47 U.S.C. § 407 provides in relevant part: If a carrier does not comply with an order for the payment of money within the time limit in such order, the complainant ... may file in the district court of the United States ... a petition setting forth briefly the causes for which he claims damages, and the order of the Commission in the premises. Such suit in the district court of the United States shall proceed in all respects like other civil suits for damages, except that on the trial of such suits the findings and order of the Commission shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It shall be the duty of every stockyard owner and market agency to establish, observe, and enforce just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory regulations and practices in respect to the furnishing of stockyard services, and every unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory regulation or practice is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To the extent necessary to decision and when presented, the reviewing court shall decide all relevant questions of law, interpret constitutional and statutory provisions, and determine the meaning or applicability of the terms of an agency action.”
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.