Walker v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2009
2 district ·
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 12 U.S.C. § 1701 (Affordable Housing for Seniors and Families Act) · 12 U.S.C. § 1701Z (Public Housing Anti-Crime Amendments of 1980) · 12 U.S.C. § 1701Z · 12 U.S.C. § 1713 · 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 12 U.S.C. § 3701 (Multifamily Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1981) · 12 U.S.C. § 3706
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Warth v. Seldin · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Allen v. Wright
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“HUD abused [its] discretion in deciding to proceed with the mortgage sales at issue here. The Secretary acted in conformity with ... policies that are totally unrelated to the objectives of the National Housing Act, such as the maximization of financial return to the federal government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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....”
1 later decision 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.