Esch v. Yeutter’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 976 · 1989
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 90 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Olenhouse v. Commodity Credit Corp. (1994), Axiom Resource Management, Inc. v. United States (2009)
35 federal appellate · 90 district ·
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 16 U.S.C. § 3831 · 16 U.S.C. § 3834 · 16 U.S.C. § 3843 · 16 U.S.C. § 3844 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 5 U.S.C. § 5596
Relies on United States v. Testan · United States v. Mitchell · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Bowen v. Massachusetts
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) when agency action is not adequately explained in the record before the court; (2) when the agency failed to consider factors which are relevant to its final decision; (3) when an agency considered evidence which it failed to include in the record; (4) when a case is so complex that a court needs more evidence to enable it to understand the issues clearly; (5) in cases where evidence arising after the agency action shows whether the decision was correct or not; (6) in cases where agencies are sued for a failure to take action; (7) in cases arising under the National Environmental Policy Act; and (8) in cases where relief is at issue, especially at the preliminary injunction stage.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any loan, or price support operation, or the amount thereof, when officially determined in conformity with the applicable regulations prescribed by the Secretary....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“final agency action for which there is no other adequate remedy in a court”
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.