McHenry v. Bond’s Empirical Analysis
668 F.2d 1185 · 1982
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably National Wildlife Federation v. Marsh (1983), 745 F. Supp. 718 - Torrington Co. v. United States (1990)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Wichita Board of Trade · Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An administrative agency concerned with furtherance of the public interest is not bound to rigid adherence to precedent.” New Castle County Airport Commission v. CAB, 371 F.2d 733 (D.C.Cir.1966), cer t. denied sub. nom. Board of Transportation v. CAB, 387 U.S. 930 , 87 S.Ct. 2052 , 18 L.Ed.2d 991 (1967). This does not mean, however, that an agency may abandon its own precedent without reason or explanation. “An agency must either conform to its prior norms and decisions or explain the reason for its departure from such precedent.” Mississippi Valley Gas Co. v. FERC, 659 F.2d 488, 506 (5th Cir.1981).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen reviewing an agency decision under the 'arbitrary and capricious' standard, we must defer to the wisdom of the agency provided [its] decision is reasoned and rational”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zukas v. R Hinson“[a] reviewing court must defer to an agency's decision if the agency has made a reasonable interpretation of its own regulation.”
1 later decision 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.