Acadian Gas Pipeline System v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 865 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Navarro-Miranda v. Ashcroft (2003), Diaz-Resendez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1992)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Udall v. Tallman · Local Democratic Union Organizing Committee Seafarers International Union of North America v. National Labor Relations Board · Lead Industries Ass'n v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where an agency has acted arbitrarily or capriciously, a reviewing court is bound to set aside the agency action. Where an agency fails to distinguish past practice, its actions may indicate that lack of reasoned articulation and responsibility that vitiates the deference the reviewing court would otherwise show.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is axiomatic that an agency choosing to alter its regulatory course 'must supply a reasoned analysis indicating that its prior policies and standards are being deliberately changed, not casually ignored.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'imposing] undue hardship by suddenly changing direction, to the detriment of those who have relied on past policy.'”
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.