Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission’s Empirical Analysis
842 F.2d 402 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2012
8 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 1033 · 28 U.S.C. § 291
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“farepayers should receive the benefit of the actual gain”
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.