Nuclear Reg Rep P 20495’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2024
4 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bell v. Hood · Weinberger v. Salfi · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · West v. Atkins
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f Mathis can prove his allegations that in 1985 the NRC was maintaining an informal policy equivalent to the policy it published in 1986, he may be able to establish that PG & E's action can 'be ascribed to governmental action.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“standard of decision for the exclusion of illegal drug users from protected areas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“that the choice must in law be deemed to be that of the [agency].”
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.