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813 F.2d 992 · 1987

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
July 2006
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Association of Mexican-American Educators v. California (2000), Cousins v. Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation (1989)

19 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 2012 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706

Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Washington v. Davis · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “are by their nature difficult, expensive, time consuming and rarely, if ever, free of error.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “attempt to use the APA to assert what is in effect a Title VII claim must fail because it would allow him to circumvent, in direct contravention of congressional intent, the numerous procedural and substantive requirements of Title VII.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law”
    3 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.