O'Connell v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 170 · 1996
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Navarro v. Pfizer Corp. (2001), Benitez-Pons v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (1998)
30 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Stinson v. United States · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court engaged in the task of statutory interpretation must examine the statute as a whole, giving due weight to design, structure, and purpose as well as to aggregate language.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ourts are bound to afford statutes a practical, commonsense reading,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the Secretary is forced to recommit a proposed regulation and twiddle her thumbs for an additional three months every time she responds agreeably to an ACCV suggestion, she may be less inclined to acquiesce in the first place. Hence, the interpretation that we adopt actually may increase the chance that the Secretary will pay attention to, and act upon, the ACCV’s advice.”
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.