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Pinnacle Armor, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

648 F.3d 708 · 2011

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
May 2025
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 4 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 3721 (National Commission to Support Law) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 6 U.S.C. § 162

Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he mere fact that a statute contains discretionary language”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “strong presumption that Congress intends judicial review of administrative action.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “rare instances where statutes are drawn in such broad terms that in a given case there is no law to apply, thereby leaving the court with no meaningful standard against which to judge the agency's exercise of discretion.”
    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.