United Steelworkers of America v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
647 F.2d 1189 · 1980
Citation profile
142 federal appellate · 15 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc. v. Donovan (1981), International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement v. Johnson Controls, Inc. (1991)
142 federal appellate · 15 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Craig v. Boren · Withrow v. Larkin · Whalen v. Roe
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'credible sources of information,' whether data from existing plants or expert testimony,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. 13 O.S.H. Cas.(bna) 1913, 13 O.S.H. Cas.(bna) 2007, 1988 O.S.H.D. (Cch) P 28,337, 1989 O.S.H.D. (Cch) P 28,429 National Grain and Feed Association and Great River Grain Corporation v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Food and Allied Service Trades Department, Afl-Cio v. Ann D. McLaughlin Secretary of Labor · NATIONAL PAINT & COATINGS ASSN., INC. v. South Coast Air Quality Management Dist.“[W]e do not pretend to have the competence or the jurisdiction to resolve technical controversies in the record or, where the rule requires setting a numerical standard, to second-guess an agency decision that falls within a “zone of reasonableness[.]” Rather, our task is to “ensure public accountability” by requiring the agency to identify relevant factual evidence, to explain the logic and the policies underlying any legislative choice, to state candidly any assumptions on which it relies, and to present its reasons for rejecting significant contrary evidence and argument.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a reasonable estimate of compliance costs and demonstrate[d] a reasonable likelihood that these costs will not threaten the existence or competitive structure of an industry, even if it does portend disaster for some marginal firms.”
7 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.