Dugan v. Ramsay’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 192 · 1984
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Gray Et Al. v. Office of Personnel Management (1986), Mills v. Apfel (2001)
19 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 1206 · 5 U.S.C. § 1302 · 5 U.S.C. § 1305 · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 704 · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 5 U.S.C. § 7703
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co. · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Inc v. B Camp Barlow
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e believe that the agency interpretation here at issue is so totally unreasonable as to be without support in the authorizing statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the key question is not whether agency action is committed to agency discretion by law, but the extent that it is so committed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fact that an agency enjoys broad discretionary powers does not mean judicial review is forbidden”
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.