Texas Oil and Gas Corporation v. James G. Watt, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior. (Twocases)’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 427 · 1982
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2018
3 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
Relies on Federal Election Commission v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · John A. Volpe v. D. C. Federation of Civic Associations · American Public Gas Ass'n v. Federal Power Commission · D. C. Federation of Civic Associations v. John A. Volpe, Secretary of Transportation D. C. Federation of Civic Associations v. John A. Volpe, Secretary of Transportation, the District of Columbia, Walter J. Hickel, Secretary of Interior
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Persons affected by statutes implemented by agency discretion would not know where to look to determine when and to what extent the status quo had been altered. And we cannot allow an agency to ignore a statutory amendment for a time and later claim, as here, that regulations based on the unamended statute render void any actions taken in accordance with the clear language of the amended statute. An agency possessed of discretion may exercise it or not; but it may not exercise it and then take back its action on the ground that, based on the duty to adhere to its own regulations irrespective of what the statute says, it lacked the discretion in the first place."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The first consequence that flows from our decision is that the Fort Chaffee leases must be reinstated. We have rejected the Secretary’s proffered rationale for cancellation; the leases were valid when issued____ Therefore the validity of the issued leases continues undiminished. In addition, we see no reason why TXO should not receive favorable action on its applications for drilling permits on two of the leased parcels at Fort Chaffee, which have been held in abeyance since September 20, 1979. As matters stand, TXO must have its twenty Fort Chaffee leases____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a retroactive exercise of discretion to which it is impossible to ascribe any rational purpose.”
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.