Adams v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 161 · 1983
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 26 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 944 F. Supp. 13 - Trout Unlimited v. United States Department of Agriculture (1996), Kickapoo Tribe of Indians v. Babbitt (1995)
22 federal appellate · 26 district · 2 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 Conley v. Gibson · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to supervise or dictate the details of [HEW's] enforcement program, once that program culminated in an administrative proceeding, itself subject to judicial review, against a recipient state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is a local interest in having localized controversies decided at home.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ur purpose, and the purpose of the District Court order as we understand it, is not to resolve particular questions of compliance or noncompliance. It is, rather, to assure that the agency properly construes its statutory obligations, and that the policies it adopts and implements are consistent with those duties and not a negation of them.”
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.