Moore v. Custis’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 1260 · 1984
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Harmon Industries, Inc. v. Browner (1999), Heaney v. United States Veterans Administration (1985)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 38 U.S.C. § 4110 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · United States v. Larionoff · National Labor Relations Board v. Brown · Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms v. Federal Labor Relations Authority · Arizona v. Manypenny
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Administrative action may be regarded as arbitrary and capricious only where it is not supportable on any rational basis." ... Something more than mere error is necessary to meet the test.... To have administrative action set aside as arbitrary and capricious, the party challenging the action must prove that it was "willful and unreasoning action, without consideration and in disregard of the facts or circumstances of the case...."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The prevailing standard is that an administrative interpretation is to be afforded controlling weight unless it is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulations at issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Criger v. Becton“[I]t is equally well established that great deference should be accorded an administrative agency's interpretation of its own regulations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Criger v. Becton
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.