Public Citizen & Center for Auto Safety v. Steed’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 93 · 1984
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Center for Auto Safety v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (1986), National Ass'n of Broadcasters v. Federal Communications Commission (1984)
29 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. United States · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Wichita Board of Trade · Roberts v. Louisiana
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As for the evidence indicating flaws in the test procedures themselves, NHTSA's statement explaining the suspension [of the rule] reflects considerable uncertainty concerning the extent to which those flaws lead to significant inaccuracies in the test results.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Without showing that the old policy is unreasonable, for [the agency] to say that no policy is better than the old policy solely because a new policy might be put into place in the indefinite future is as silly as it sounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any event, an 'indefinite suspension' does not differ from a revocation simply because the agency chooses to label it a suspension ...”
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.