Public Citizen v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 1108 · 1987
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Mills (1992), Building & Construction Trades Department v. Brock (1988)
19 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 321 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 348 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 376 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 292 · 29 U.S.C. § 652 (§ 3 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 42 U.S.C. § 7412 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · Industrial Union Department v. American Petroleum Institute Marshall · Rathbun 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he natural--almost inescapable--reading of this language is that if the Secretary finds the additive to 'induce' cancer in animals, he must deny listing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A color additive [...] shall be deemed unsafe, and shall not be listed, for any use which will or may result in ingestion of all or part of such additive, if the additive is found by the Secretary to induce cancer when ingested by man or animal, or if it is found by the Secretary, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of additives for use in food, to induce cancer in man or animal[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no additive shall be deemed to be safe if it is found to induce cancer when ingested by man or animal, or it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animal____”
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.