Bresgal v. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 1163 · 1987
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Harmon v. Thornburgh (1989), Image Technical Services, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co. (1997)
31 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
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1801 · 26 U.S.C. § 3121 (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 29 U.S.C. § 1801 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 1802 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Heckler v. Chaney · Rizzo v. Goode · Califano v. Yamasaki
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if such breadth is necessary to give prevailing parties the relief to which they are entitled.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here relief can be structured on an individual basis, it must be narrowly tailored to remedy the specific harm shown”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That discretion is necessary for the agency to order its priorities and allocate its resources.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.