Batterton v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
648 F.2d 694 · 1980
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 59 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 303 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. (1981), 38 Cal. 3d 913 - Perdue v. Crocker National Bank (1985)
121 federal appellate · 59 district · 26 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc.
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 303 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a statement of the time, place, and nature of public rule making proceedings; 45 (2) reference to the legal authority under which the rule is proposed; and 46 (3) either the terms or substance of the proposed rule or a description of the subjects and issues involved.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“(4) “rule” means the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy or describing the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of an agency and includes the approval or prescription for the future of rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services or allowances therefor or of valuations, costs, or accounting, or practices bearing on any of the foregoing[.]”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“A useful articulation of the exemption’s critical feature is that it covers agency actions that do not themselves alter the rights or interests of parties, although it may alter the manner in which parties present themselves or their viewpoints to the agency.”
13 later decisions 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.