McDonald v. Watt’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 1035 · 1981
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Laborers' International Union v. Foster Wheeler Corp. (1994), Clark-Cowlitz Joint Operating Agency v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1987)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Stovall v. Denno · Udall v. Tallman · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Linkletter v. Walker · National Labor Relations Board v. Wyman-Gordon 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the particular case is one of first impression, (2) whether the new rule represents an abrupt departure from well-established practice or merely attempts to fill a void in an unsettled area of law, (3) the extent to which the party against whom the new rule is applied relied on the former rule, (4) the degree of burden which a retroactive order imposes on a party, and (5) the statutory interest in applying a new rule despite the reliance of a party on the old standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“balance the effects of retroactive application against the 'mischief of producing a result which is contrary to statutory design or to legal and equitable principles.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in appropriate cases the Court may in the interest of justice make [a new agency rule announced in adjudication] prospective.”
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.