Harmon v. Thornburgh’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 484 · 1989
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 25 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably 14 Cal. 4th 846 - Loder v. City of Glendale (1997), National Treasury Employees Union v. Yeutter (1990)
51 federal appellate · 25 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 703 · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 5 U.S.C. § 7301 (Federal Employee Substance Abuse Education and Treatment Act of 1986)
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · Sampson v. Murray · United States v. Swift & 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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“having substantial responsibility for the prosecution of federal drug offenders,”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a reviewing court determines that agency regulations are unlawful, the ordinary result is that the rules are vacated-not that their application to the individual petitioners is proscribed.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[1]t would not be desirable to ask the Department to draw distinctions, within the class of attorneys holding top secret clearances, between attorneys who do and those who do not deal with such materials on a regular basis. The whole point of granting top secret security clearances in advance is to provide flexibility, to ensure that employees can be given access to top secret materials as soon as the need arises.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.