Robbins v. Reagan’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 37 · 1985
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 46 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Burke v. Gould (2002), Hoffman v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1988)
42 federal appellate · 46 district · 5 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. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 9904 · 42 U.S.C. § 9910 · 5 U.S.C. § 501 · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Bell v. Hood
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven where there are no clear statutory guidelines, courts often are still able to discern from the statutory scheme a congressional intention to pursue a general goal. If the agency action is found not to be reasonably consistent with this goal, then the courts must invalidate it. The mere fact that a statute grants broad discretion to an agency does not render the agency’s decisions completely nonreviewable under the “committed to agency discretion by law” exception unless the statutory scheme, taken together with other relevant materials, provides absolutely no guidance as to how that discretion is to be exercised.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'is easily met--an arguably plausible claim must be allowed to proceed.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When Congress limits the purpose for which a grant can be made, it can be presumed that it intends that the dispersing agency make its allocations based on factors solely related to the goal of implementing the stated statutory purposes in a reasonable fashion, rather than taking irrelevant or impermissible factors into account.”
2 later decisions 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.