Mada-Luna v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 1006 · 1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Leslie Salt Co. v. United States (1995), In re Alappat (1994)
6 federal appellate · 6 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 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
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 · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Heckler v. Chaney · Jean v. Nelson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“General notice of proposed rule making shall be published ... [e]xcept ... this subsection does not apply ... to interpretive rules, general statements of policy, or rules of agency organization....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exception to the APA's notice and comment provisions provided in Sec. 553(b)(3)(A) and Sec. 553(d)(2). Ibid. This court drew the distinction between directives that guide agency personnel in the exercise of discretionary authority, and those that establish a”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lake Mohave Boat Owners Association v. National Park Service · 95 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 8143, 95 Daily Journal D.A.R. 14,011 Lake Mohave Boat Owners Association, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. National Park Service, Alan J. O'neill, Stanley Albright, Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, and Seven Resorts, Inc., Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees“[A]n individual may not raise an FOIA claim based on an agency's failure to publish a rule or regulation, unless he makes an 'initial showing' that 'he was adversely affected by the lack of publication....'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lake Mohave Boat Owners Association v. National Park Service · 95 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 8143, 95 Daily Journal D.A.R. 14,011 Lake Mohave Boat Owners Association, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. National Park Service, Alan J. O'neill, Stanley Albright, Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, and Seven Resorts, Inc., Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees
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.