Ceramica Regiomontana, S.A. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 1137 · 1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 302 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Micron Technology, Inc. v. United States (1997), Cronin v. United States Department of Agriculture (1990)
5 federal appellate ·
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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission · 636 F. Supp. 961 - Ceramica Regiomontanam, S.A. v. United States
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 302 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'uphold [an agency's] decision of less than ideal clarity if the agency's path may reasonably be discerned.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ITA gave a full and rational explanation of the basis for its two-tier system,”
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.