Levesque v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
723 F.2d 175 · 1983
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 913 - Perdue v. Crocker National Bank (1985), Methodist Hospital v. Shalala (1994)
45 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 7 U.S.C. § 2012 · 7 U.S.C. § 2013 · 7 U.S.C. § 2014
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · General Electric Co. v. Gilbert · Batterton v. Francis
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e agree that substantial impact does not make a rule legislative, but whether a rule has a substantial impact may be relevant in construing the intent of the agency in issuing the rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“requires that public rule-making procedures shall not prevent an agency from operating.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“both follow section 553 and execute its statutory duties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.