Railroad Yardmasters of America v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 1332 · 1983
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Walter O. Boswell Memorial Hospital v. Heckler (1984), Reid v. Engen (1985)
52 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1461 · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 154 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 160 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Buckley v. Valeo · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Singleton v. Wulff
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The substantive issue here ... is solely one of statutory interpretation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“does not require the development of a factual record,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“judicial review might be hindered by the failure of the litigant to allow the agency to make a factual record, exercise its discretion, or apply its expertise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.