Porter v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “"(1) to avoid premature interruption of the administrative process; (2) to let the agency develop the necessary factual background upon which decisions should be based; (3) to permit the agency to exercise its discretion or apply its expertise; (4) to improve the efficiency of the administrative process; (5) to conserve scarce judicial resources, since the complaining party may be successful in vindicating rights in the administrative process and the courts may never have to intervene; (6) to give the agency a chance to discover and correct its own errors; and (7) to avoid the possibility that 'frequent and deliberate flouting of administrative processes could weaken the effectiveness of an agency by encouraging people to ignore its procedures.' Porter v. Schweiker , 692 F.2d 740 , 742 (11th Cir. 1982) (quoting Patsy v. Florida International University , 634 F.2d 900 , 903 (5th Cir. 1981), rev'd and remanded on other grounds , 457 U.S. 496 , 102 S.Ct. 2557 , 73 L.Ed.2d 172 (1982)). See also McKart v. United States , 395 U.S. 185 , 193-94 , 89 S.Ct. 1657 , 1662-63 , 23 L.Ed.2d 194 (1969)."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 539 So. 2d 286 - Hall v. City of Dothan · 495 So. 2d 1367 - Ex Parte Graddick