Fernandez’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Lambert v. Ackerley (1998), Thompson v. Calderon (1998)
15 federal appellate · 7 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. · Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As in all cases of statutory interpretation, our starting point in determining Congress's intent must be the language of the statute itself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“not substitute [its] own construction of a statutory provision for a reasonable interpretation made by the administrator of an agency”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defer to the agency's interpretation of the statute if it 'is based on a permissible construction of the statute'”
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.